The constitutional origins of the American Revolution [electronic resource] / Jack P. Greene.
2011
KF4541 .G743 2011eb
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Title
The constitutional origins of the American Revolution [electronic resource] / Jack P. Greene.
Author
Greene, Jack P.
ISBN
9780511909986 (electronic bk.)
0511909985 (electronic bk.)
9780521760935
0521760933
9780521132305
0521132304
0511909985 (electronic bk.)
9780521760935
0521760933
9780521132305
0521132304
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 198 p.)
Call Number
KF4541 .G743 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.7302/9
Summary
"Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
"Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision of thirteen continental colonies to secede from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution and the empire as whole having an uncodified working customary constitution that determined the way authority was distributed within the empire. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
"Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision of thirteen continental colonies to secede from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution and the empire as whole having an uncodified working customary constitution that determined the way authority was distributed within the empire. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
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New histories of American law.
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Table of Contents
Prologue : inheritance
Empire negotiated, 1689-1763
Empire confronted, 1764-1766
Empire reconsidered, 1767-1773
Empire shattered, 1774-1776
Epilogue : legacy.
Empire negotiated, 1689-1763
Empire confronted, 1764-1766
Empire reconsidered, 1767-1773
Empire shattered, 1774-1776
Epilogue : legacy.