Christian G. Fritz is a legal historian and a

law professor A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

at the

University of New Mexico School of Law The University of New Mexico School of Law (UNM Law or New Mexico Law) is the law school of the University of New Mexico, a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1947, it is the first and only law school in the state. ...

. He writes on U.S. constitutional history, and his 2007 book ''American Sovereigns: the People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War'', published by

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

, traces the historical roots of popular sovereignty in U.S. law. Fritz received his B.A. degree in 1975 and his Ph.D. in history in 1986 from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and his J.D. degree in 1978 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

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