Constituting empire : New York and the transformation of constitutionalism in the Atlantic world, 1664-1830 /
Explains how colonists and administrators reconfigured British legal sources to suit their needs in an expanding empire. This story captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Empire and liberty
- Time immemorial : the foundations of common-law culture in an imperial province
- The multiple constitutions of empire in New York, 1750-1777
- The search for imperial law in the 1760s
- Provincial resistance and garrison government
- The state constitution of 1777
- The imperial federalist: ratification and the creation of constitutional law
- Empire state : constitutional politics and the convention of 1821
- An empire of law.
