The royalist revolution : monarchy and the American founding /

The founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, Eric Nelson argues, not the Crown. As a result of their labors, the 1787 Constitution assigned its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Eric, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1700-1799
Political science > United States > History > 18th century.
Constitutional history > United States > 18th century.
Monarchy.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis > 18e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Politics and government.
Constitutional history.
Political science.
Politische Wissenschaft
Monarchie
Verfassung
Politik > historia.
Förvaltning > historia.
Monarki > historia.
United States > Politics and government > 18th century.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 18e siècle.
United States.
USA
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Patriot Royalism: the Stuart monarchy and the turn to prerogative, 1768-1775
  • "One step farther, and we are got back to where we set out from": patriots and the Royalist theory of representation
  • "The Lord alone shall be king of America": 1776, Common Sense, and the Republican turn
  • "The old government, as near as possible": Royalism in the wilderness, 1776-1780
  • "All know that a single magistrate is not a king": Royalism and the constitution of 1787.

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