Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2-4-2010
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory
Abstract
Only one proposal for a more democratic alternative to the US Constitution was made in the 1780s and 1790s by a Pennsylvania farmer and preacher named Herman Husband His New Jerusalem proposal would have filled the Mississippi Valley with a multilayered government based upon tenmilesquare townships whose citizens would elect all the important officials This piece tells Husbands story from his Maryland gentry farmer days through a sojourn in central North Carolina whence he was driven because of his radical ideas to his demise after being acquitted of sedition against the new United States government in 1795
Recommended Citation
Whythe Holt,
The New Jerusalem: Herman Husband's Egalitarian Alternative to the United States Constitution,
(2010).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/516