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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... practice in the American experience and wherein lay the debt to European legal and political theory . Above all , his book attests to the soundness of the constitutional ideas of the Founding Fathers , and serves to explain why the free ...
... practice in the American experience and wherein lay the debt to European legal and political theory . Above all , his book attests to the soundness of the constitutional ideas of the Founding Fathers , and serves to explain why the free ...
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... practice , political leaders in each state had to formulate the rules of the political process in state constitutions and in key laws . Similarly , relations between the states , and in particular the states ' desire for individual ...
... practice , political leaders in each state had to formulate the rules of the political process in state constitutions and in key laws . Similarly , relations between the states , and in particular the states ' desire for individual ...
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... , Constitutional Government and Democ- racy : Theory and Practice in Europe and America ( Boston , 1941 ) , and Karl Loewenstein , family and of an aristocracy . Republican government in America 4 THE FIRST AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS.
... , Constitutional Government and Democ- racy : Theory and Practice in Europe and America ( Boston , 1941 ) , and Karl Loewenstein , family and of an aristocracy . Republican government in America 4 THE FIRST AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS.
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... practice did not detract from the value of the theory . If the principles on which the English constitution were built corresponded to natural laws , then the constitution would necessarily achieve perfection at a later time . Even ...
... practice did not detract from the value of the theory . If the principles on which the English constitution were built corresponded to natural laws , then the constitution would necessarily achieve perfection at a later time . Even ...
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... practice . " It is certain , in theory , " John Adams wrote in May 1776 , " that the only moral foundation of government is , the consent of the people . But to what an extent shall we carry this principle ? " 43 The great majority of ...
... practice . " It is certain , in theory , " John Adams wrote in May 1776 , " that the only moral foundation of government is , the consent of the people . But to what an extent shall we carry this principle ? " 43 The great majority of ...
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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.