The Dorr War
Author | : Arthur May Mowry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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Author | : Arthur May Mowry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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Author | : George M. Dennison |
Publisher | : Lexington : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Rory Raven |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1614231044 |
The remarkable story of the bloody conflict that erupted in 1841 Rhode Island over allowing non-property owners to vote. The portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people’s champion—but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state. In October of that year, the People’s Convention ratified a new constitution that extended voting rights to those without land, and Dorr was named governor. That act would spark a small civil war, and violence erupted as the people of the state stood sharply divided in a conflict that reached the president and United States Supreme Court. Author Rory Raven charts the tumultuous and ultimately tragic history of a man and a movement that were too far ahead of their time.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Dorr Rebellion, 1842 |
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Author | : Marvin E. Gettleman |
Publisher | : New York : Random House |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : American ballads and songs |
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Author | : Theresa R. Flynn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Dorr Rebellion, 1842 |
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Author | : Arthur May Mowry |
Publisher | : War College Series |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2015-02-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781298104366 |
This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
Author | : Erik J. Chaput |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0700619240 |
In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr’s failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately led to an armed insurrection that was quickly quashed—and to a stiff sentence for Dorr himself. Nevertheless, as Erik Chaput shows, the Dorr Rebellion stands as a critical moment of American history during the two decades of fractious sectional politics leading up to the Civil War. This uprising was the only revolutionary republican movement in the antebellum period that claimed the people’s sovereignty as the basis for the right to alter or abolish a form of government. Equally important, it influenced the outcomes of important elections throughout northern states in the early 1840s and foreshadowed the breakup of the national Democratic Party in 1860. Through his spellbinding and engaging narrative, Chaput sets the rebellion in the context of national affairs—especially the abolitionist movement. While Dorr supported the rights of African Americans, a majority of delegates to the “People’s Convention” favored a whites-only clause to ensure the proposed constitution’s passage, which brought abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Abby Kelley to Rhode Island to protest. Meanwhile, Dorr’s ideology of the people’s sovereignty sparked profound fears among Southern politicians regarding its potential to trigger slave insurrections. Drawing upon years of extensive archival research, Chaput’s book provides the first scholarly biography of Dorr, as well as the most detailed account of the rebellion yet published. In it, Chaput tackles issues of race and gender and carries the story forward into the 1850s to examine the transformation of Dorr’s ideology into the more familiar refrain of popular sovereignty. Chaput demonstrates how the rebellion’s real aims and significance were far broader than have been supposed, encompassing seemingly conflicting issues including popular sovereignty, antislavery, land reform, and states’ rights. The People’s Martyr is a definitive look at a key event in our history that further defined the nature of American democracy and the form of constitutionalism we now hold as inviolable.
Author | : Russell J. DeSimone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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