Citizen or subject?

Chapter 2: AUTHOR’S NOTE

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The author analyzes the difference between self-governing citizens and passive subjects, tracing constitutional development from revolutionary conventions through the federal league to a national government created by the people. He argues that certain constitutional changes, notably the Eighteenth Amendment, conflict with citizen sovereignty by converting free citizens into subjects, and he supports this claim with close readings of founding debates, constitutional clauses, and legal history to insist on preserving civil liberty and clear limits on governmental power.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Quotations from the Constitution of the United States are from the “Literal Print,” Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1920.

The abbreviation “Ell. Deb.” refers to Elliot’s Debates, 2nd Edition, 5 vols., J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1866.

The “Federalist” is quoted from the Lodge Edition, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1894.

Wherever italics or capitals are used in a quotation and not directly stated to be those of the original author, they are the italics and capitals of the present writer.

Where the present writer interpolates his own words in a quotation, they are included in square brackets.