The American constitutional tradition : colonial charters, covenants, and revolutionary state constitutions, 1578-1780 /

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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 inde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, H. Lowell (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : The Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
Colección:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
Temas:
Constitutional law > United States > History.
Constitutional law > United States > States.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Constitutional law
Constitutional law > U.S. states
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The enterprise colonies of Virginia
  • The covenant colonies of New England
  • The proprietary colonies of the Mid-Atlantic
  • The emergence of the American constitutional tradition in the age of imperium
  • The quest for a federal union
  • The revolutionary state constitutions
  • The American constitutional tradition in the Revolutionary era.

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