The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary EraRowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 378 من الصفحات For the last twenty years this book has been cited by every serious writer on early American constitutional development. Any constitutional history of the independent United States must begin with this comprehensive study. Professor Adams combines a European perspective and a thorough knowledge of the antecedents of 1787 to create an insightful analysis of the replacement by the revolutionary generation of one government by another by--they thought--"constitutional" means. Acting for "the people" in 11 of the 13 rebelling states, various kinds of self-empowered committees, "congresses," or "conventions" created new constitutions and a system in which the states dominated over the weaker Confederation government. This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the U.S. Constitution, and another chapter critically testing the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas and institutional arrangements that constitute the first state constitutions. The bibliography has been updated to include the rich body of work written during the last two decades, much of it indebted to this pioneering study. |
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... king was not restored ; the British Cabinet system not adopted ; but instead , political institutions were instituted incorporat- ing principles of division of powers and checks and balances , princi- ples thoroughly grounded in the ...
... king was not restored ; the British Cabinet system not adopted ; but instead , political institutions were instituted incorporat- ing principles of division of powers and checks and balances , princi- ples thoroughly grounded in the ...
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... king fled England in 1688 , and his daughter and son - in - law assumed the throne in 1689 at the invitation of and under the conditions dictated by members of the upper and lower houses , the monarchical component of the English ...
... king fled England in 1688 , and his daughter and son - in - law assumed the throne in 1689 at the invitation of and under the conditions dictated by members of the upper and lower houses , the monarchical component of the English ...
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... king nor his prime minister could take any major steps without considering the wishes of the majority in the lower house . Over and above the limits this parliamentary system imposed on the crown , independent judges saw to it that ...
... king nor his prime minister could take any major steps without considering the wishes of the majority in the lower house . Over and above the limits this parliamentary system imposed on the crown , independent judges saw to it that ...
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... king , which would destroy his constitutional independence ; but , which is more beneficial to the public ) of his evil and pernicious counsellors . Thus every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported , regulates and is ...
... king , which would destroy his constitutional independence ; but , which is more beneficial to the public ) of his evil and pernicious counsellors . Thus every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported , regulates and is ...
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... king , lords , and commons , if it could be re- stored to its true spirit and efficiency , might be made to yield all the II . Baron de Montesquieu , The Spirit of the Laws , trans . Thomas Nugent ( New York , 1949 ) , I , book II ...
... king , lords , and commons , if it could be re- stored to its true spirit and efficiency , might be made to yield all the II . Baron de Montesquieu , The Spirit of the Laws , trans . Thomas Nugent ( New York , 1949 ) , I , book II ...
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الصفحة 18 - Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the Charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the Word of God; let a Crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW 1s KING. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to BE king, and there ought to be no other.