TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,H.Lowell
TI  - The American Constitutional Tradition: Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578-1780
T2  - The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series
SN  - 9781683930488
AV  - KF4550.B743 2017 
U1  - 342.73029 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
KW  - Constitutional law - United States - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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