Sumário:Constituent power, revolution, and the inherent power of constitution-making bodies -- The Founding period -- Antebellum state constitutional replacement : the rise of extraordinary representation: Early expressions of constituent power : 1800-1830. Nullification in the South Carolina Court of Appeals. The Dorr rebellion and Luther v. Borden -- Factional secessionist conventions in the American South -- Postbellum reaction to runaway conventions -- The American common law of constituent power: Extratextual right to call a legislatively convened constitutional convention. Power to limit constitutional conventions through the enabling act. Implied limitations on powers of conventions to issue ordinances.