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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... ment , and as such are part of the foundations of national identity and of the legitimacy of the present political system . The authors of the relevant studies probably never set out consciously to perform this service for their nation ...
... ment , and as such are part of the foundations of national identity and of the legitimacy of the present political system . The authors of the relevant studies probably never set out consciously to perform this service for their nation ...
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... ment as part of the struggle for independence . A decade before the Federal Constitution , they provided the foundation of legally en- forcible rights in the early republic . From his vantage point as the mas- ter of the field of all of ...
... ment as part of the struggle for independence . A decade before the Federal Constitution , they provided the foundation of legally en- forcible rights in the early republic . From his vantage point as the mas- ter of the field of all of ...
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... ment of the great compromise of 1688 : the principle of parliamentary sovereignty . The parliamentary majority , which adhered to a stricter colonial policy from 1763 on , regarded the colonies by definition as subordinate entities not ...
... ment of the great compromise of 1688 : the principle of parliamentary sovereignty . The parliamentary majority , which adhered to a stricter colonial policy from 1763 on , regarded the colonies by definition as subordinate entities not ...
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... ment . " The application of this principle to the immediate political situation led Wilson to the following conclusion : " The commons of Great Britain have no dominion over their equals and fellow subjects in America : they can confer ...
... ment . " The application of this principle to the immediate political situation led Wilson to the following conclusion : " The commons of Great Britain have no dominion over their equals and fellow subjects in America : they can confer ...
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... ment — were subject and that they had no authority to alter . Decades before the colonists created their own constitutions , they emphasized , almost more than the Whigs in the home country had done , the invi- olability of the rulings ...
... ment — were subject and that they had no authority to alter . Decades before the colonists created their own constitutions , they emphasized , almost more than the Whigs in the home country had done , the invi- olability of the rulings ...
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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.