Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The authority to legislate, Volume 3This is the first comprehensive study of the constitutionality of the Parliamentary legislation cited by the American Continental Congress as a justification for its rebellion against Great Britain in 1776. The content and purpose of that legislation is well known to historians, but here Reid places it in the context of eighteenth-century constitutional doctrine and discusses its legality in terms of the intellectual premises of eighteenth-century Anglo-American legal values. |
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INTRODUCTION 31 | 3 |
CULTURE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM | 17 |
Language of Constitutionalism | 26 |
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Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The authority ..., Volume 3 John Phillip Reid No preview available - 1986 |