The Constitutional Origins Of The American Revolution
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Author | : Jack P. Greene |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139492934 |
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Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
Author | : John Phillip Reid |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2003-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299112943 |
Download Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume II Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.
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Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
Author | : Donald S. Lutz |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Colonial Origins of the American Constitution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Tony Gallagher |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Download The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution as Seen Through the British Colonial Post Office Controversy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Michael F. Conlin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2019-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108495273 |
Download The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
Author | : John Phillip Reid |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780226708966 |
Download The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.
Author | : Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197546919 |
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Written by one of early America's most eminent historians, this book masterfully discusses the debates over constitutionalism that took place in the Revolutionary era.
Author | : John Phillip Reid |
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Release | : 1986 |
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ISBN | : 9780299112905 |
Download Constitutional History of the American Revolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Woody Holton |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429923660 |
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Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's post–Revolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed too many middling Americans exercised too much influence over state and national policies. That the framers were only partially successful in curtailing citizen rights is due to the reaction, sometimes violent, of unruly average Americans. If not to protect civil liberties and the freedom of the people, what motivated the framers? In Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Holton provides the startling discovery that the primary purpose of the Constitution was, simply put, to make America more attractive to investment. And the linchpin to that endeavor was taking power away from the states and ultimately away from the people. In an eye-opening interpretation of the Constitution, Holton captures how the same class of Americans that produced Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts (and rebellions in damn near every other state) produced the Constitution we now revere. Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.