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The American Constitutional Tradition : Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578-1780.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683930488
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The American Constitutional TraditionDDC classification:
  • 342.73029
LOC classification:
  • KF4550.B743 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part I: Constitutionalism in Colonial America -- 1 The Enterprise Colonies of Virginia -- 2 The Covenant Colonies of New England -- 3 The Proprietary Colonies of the Mid-Atlantic -- 4 The Emergence of the American Constitutional Tradition in the Age of the Imperium -- Part II: Revolutionary Constitutionalism, 1775 to 1784 -- 5 The Quest for a Federal Union -- 6 The Revolutionary State Constitutions -- 7 The American Constitutional Tradition in the Revolutionary Era -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Closer examination of foundational, revolutionary documents, and of the colonial legislation enacted on the basis of those foundational documents, reveals an American tradition of constitutionalism that the Revolutionaries were able to draw upon when fashioning their constitutions for the newly independent states and for the federal government.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part I: Constitutionalism in Colonial America -- 1 The Enterprise Colonies of Virginia -- 2 The Covenant Colonies of New England -- 3 The Proprietary Colonies of the Mid-Atlantic -- 4 The Emergence of the American Constitutional Tradition in the Age of the Imperium -- Part II: Revolutionary Constitutionalism, 1775 to 1784 -- 5 The Quest for a Federal Union -- 6 The Revolutionary State Constitutions -- 7 The American Constitutional Tradition in the Revolutionary Era -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Closer examination of foundational, revolutionary documents, and of the colonial legislation enacted on the basis of those foundational documents, reveals an American tradition of constitutionalism that the Revolutionaries were able to draw upon when fashioning their constitutions for the newly independent states and for the federal government.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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