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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION 31 | 3 |
CULTURE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM | 17 |
Language of Constitutionalism | 26 |
PASSAGE OF THE DECLARATORY ACT 324 | 34 |
Scope of the DECLARATORY ACT | 47 |
THE LOGIC OF SUPREMACY | 63 |
Logic of Empire | 74 |
CONSTRAINTS OF TRUST | 87 |
CONSTRAINTS OF LAW | 151 |
PRECEDENTS OF HISTORY | 159 |
PRECEDENTS OF CHARTER | 172 |
PRECEDENTS OF ANALOGY | 192 |
PRECEDENTS OF REGULATION | 207 |
AUTHORITY TO REGULATE | 222 |
PRECEDENTS OF LEGISLATION | 246 |
LEGISLATION OF SUPREMACY | 273 |
CONSTRAINTS OF CONSENT | 97 |
CONSTRAINTS OF CONTRACT | 111 |
CONSTRAINTS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM | 126 |
CONSTRAINTS OF LIBERTY | 142 |
Tea Tax | 290 |
CONCLUSION | 300 |
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