Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights - Couverture souple

University Of Wisconsin Press

 
9780299108748: Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

John Phillip Reid is the Russell D. Niles Professor of Law at New York University. His books include Policing the Elephant: Crime and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail as well as the abridged one-volume edition of Constitutional History of the American Revolution based on this four-volume work.

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