Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority Of Rights Volume 1: Rights - Hardcover

Reid, John Phillip

 
9780299108700: Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority Of Rights Volume 1: Rights

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Constitutional History of the American Revolution

Volume I: The Authority of Rights

Volume II: The Authority to Tax

Volume III: The Authority to Legislate

Volume IV: The Authority of Law


John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.

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Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
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