Research Catalog

Title

The search for authority in California / by Woodrow James Hansen ; introduction by Joseph Augustine Sullivan.

Author

Hansen, Woodrow James, 1915-

Publication

Oakland, California : Biobooks, 1960.

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Details

Description

192 pages : illustrations, folded color map; 29 cm.

Summary

Covers the period from the lowering of the flag at Monterey in 1822, to the signing of the Constitution of 1849 - also at Monterey.

Series Statement

California heritage, no. 47

Uniform Title

California heritage ; no. 47.

Subject

• California. Constitutional Convention (1849)
• Constitutional Convention (California : 1849)
• To 1850
• Politics and government
• California > Politics and government
• California > History > To 1846
• California > History > 1846-1850
• California

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 190-192.

Contents

The impact of the Mexican revolution upon Alta California -- A new order of things in Alta California -- Growth of the secular spirit -- A new governor and the emergence of private ownership of land -- The demise of the missions and the birth of a new class system -- The reception of centralism in Alta California -- The Alvarado revolution : demand for home-rule -- The Alvarado revolution : first step toward a civil society appropriate to a republic -- Challenge and response -- Imperialism American style and the emergence of Sutter as a power in Alta California -- The breakdown of constitutional republicanism in Alta California -- The failure of republicanism in Alta California -- Pio Pico's futile efforts to re-establish constitutional authority in Alta California -- The lengthening shadow of the United States -- Challenge and response : California falls apart -- The best laid plans of Larkin and the United States state department -- The bears and the search for authority -- Larkin tries to salvage United States annexation policy -- The evolution of a United States occupation policy -- California under military authority, 1847-48 -- De facto authority versus the state of nature -- The American genius asserts itself -- The men who came to Monterey -- The prospects for political agreement -- The first week -- The second week--the Bill of Rights : social and political ideals -- Apportionment and suffrage -- The legislature -- The third week--the split over banks and corporations -- McCarver's free Negro amendment -- Debate continues : the boundary and the mind of congress -- The fourth week--the convention learns to compromise -- American social and political values as discovered in the miscellaneous provisions and the schedule -- Toward a philosophy of politics -- The fifth week--resolution of the banking, free-Negro, and Indian questions -- The constitution and the new social order -- The end in sight -- The final week--representation of the distribution of power in a democracy -- The convention faces failure -- The secret of a working democracy -- Completion of the constitution -- The search ends.

LCCN

60032762

OCLC

• ocm05898177
• 5898177
• SCSB-278920

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library