Hybrid Constitutions : Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America /
Study of three proprietary colonies--Maryland, Carolina, and Pennsylvania--that emphasizes the uneven, local, and contingent aspects of the development of American constitutionalism.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hybrid constitutionalisms: unsettling the empire of uniformity
- "Not repugnant or contrary": law, discretion, and colonial founding
- Giving orders: theory and practice in the Fundamental constitutions of Carolina
- Under negotiation: treaty power and hybrid constitutionalism in Pennsylvania
- Negotiating culture: plurality and power in hybrid constitutionalism.