The text presents a historical analysis to the limits of the full popular sovereignty in the United States from the Independence to the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on the active role of the Supreme Court as an opponent to the expansion of the North-American democracy. The vigorous efforts of the Supreme Court in order to extend the warrants of the slave owner's rights before the Civil War reveal how strong the same Court repelled the recognition of fundamental rights incorporated to the Constitution by the 13th and 14th Amendments after the Civil War, transfiguring the "everyman's Constitution" speech into the reality of the "inverted Constitution".
Copular Sovereignty; Democracy; American Constitutional History