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The People‘s Law: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805

King-Owen, Gregory S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304086385

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
Between 1780 and 1805 North Carolina‘s government struggled to define the parameters of statehood through its policies. In the creation of the state, petitions from ordinary citizens played a central role in the debate over the people and their relationship to the government. Courted by emerging Federalists in the late 1780s, the people found themselves elevated to a central role in the political life of the state through their petitioning power. By the late 1790s, however, lawyers turned away from the people as a source of power through petitioning and tried to channel grievances through a court system whose rules would protect the purity of process over the substantive claims of petitioners.
John Brooke, PhD (Advisor)
Margaret Newell, PhD (Committee Member)
Alan Gallay, PhD (Committee Member)
468 p.
American History
North Carolina; governance; law; politics; petitioning; state formation; courts; legislatures

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  • King-Owen, G. S. (2011). The People‘s Law: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304086385

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • King-Owen, Gregory. The People‘s Law: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805. 2011. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304086385.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • King-Owen, Gregory. "The People‘s Law: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304086385

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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