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Book Synopsis Colonial Origins of the American Constitution by : Donald S. Lutz
Download or read book Colonial Origins of the American Constitution written by Donald S. Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Transatlantic Constitution by : Mary Sarah Bilder
Download or read book The Transatlantic Constitution written by Mary Sarah Bilder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution—that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances—shaped the legal development of the colonial world. Focusing on practices rather than doctrines, Bilder describes how the pragmatic and flexible conversation about this constitution shaped colonial law: the development of the legal profession; the place of English law in the colonies; the existence of equity courts and legislative equitable relief; property rights for women and inheritance laws; commercial law and currency reform; and laws governing religious establishment. Using as a case study the corporate colony of Rhode Island, which had the largest number of appeals of any mainland colony to the English Privy Council, she reconstructs a largely unknown world of pre-Constitutional legal culture.
Book Synopsis The American Constitutional Tradition by : H. Lowell Brown
Download or read book The American Constitutional Tradition written by H. Lowell Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a work of non-fiction. The book is a historical analysis of the evolution of a uniquely American constitutionalism that began with the original English royal charters for the exploration and exploitation of North America. When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, the accepted conception of a constitution was that of the British constitution, upon which the colonists had relied in asserting their rights with respect to the imperium, comprised of ancient documents, parliamentary enactments, administrative regulations, judicial pronouncements, and established custom. Of equal significance, the laws comprising the constitution did not differ from other statutes and as a consequence, there was no law endowed with greater sanctity than other legislative enactments. In framing the revolutionary state constitutions following the retreat of the crown governments in the colonies, as well as the later federal Constitution, the Revolutionaries fundamentally reconceived a constitution as being the single authoritative source of fundamental law that was superior to all other statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions, that was ratified by the states and that was subject to revision only through a formal amendment process. This new constitutional conception has been hailed as the great innovation of the revolutionary period, and deservedly so. This American constitutionalism had its origins in the now largely overlooked royal charters for the exploration of North America beginning with the charter granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert by Elizabeth I in 1578. The book follows the development of this constitutional tradition from the early charters of the Virginia Companies and the covenants entered of the New England colonies, through the proprietary charters of the Middle Atlantic colonies. On the basis of those foundational documents, the colonists fashioned governments that came to be comprised not only of an executive, but an elected legislature and a judiciary. In those foundational documents and in the acts of the colonial legislatures, the settlers sought to harmonize their aspirations for just institutions and individual rights with the exigencies and imperatives of an alien and often hostile environment. When the colonies faced the withdrawal of the crown governments in 1775, they drew on their experience, which they formalized in written constitutions. This uniquely American constitutional tradition of the charters, covenants and state constitutions was the foundation of the federal Constitution and of the process by which the Constitution was written and ratified a decade later.
Book Synopsis Constitutions and Gender by : Helen Irving
Download or read book Constitutions and Gender written by Helen Irving and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutions and gender is a new and exciting field, attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely handbook features contributions from leading pioneers and younger scholars, applying a gendered lens to constitution-making and design, constitutional practice and citizenship, and constitutional challenges to gender equality rights and values. It offers a gendered perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from the long-established, to the world’s newly emerging democracies. Constitutions and Gender portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do.
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America: Kentucky ; Massachusetts by : Francis Newton Thorpe
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America: Kentucky ; Massachusetts written by Francis Newton Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hybrid Constitutions by : Vicki Hsueh
Download or read book Hybrid Constitutions written by Vicki Hsueh and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals how diverse constitutional thought and practice were at the time, and how colonial ambitions were advanced through cruelty toward indigenous peoples as well as accommodation of them. Proprietary colonies were governed by individuals (or small groups of individuals) granted colonial charters by the Crown. These proprietors had quasi-sovereign status over their colonies; they were able to draw on and transform English legal and political instruments as they developed constitutions. Hsueh demonstrates that the proprietors cobbled together constitutions based on the terms of their charters and the needs of their settlements. The “hybrid constitutions” they created were often altered based on interactions among the English settlers, other European settlers, and indigenous peoples. Hsueh traces the historical development and theoretical implications of proprietary constitutionalism by examining the founding of the colonies of Maryland, Carolina, and Pennsylvania. She provides close readings of colonial proclamations, executive orders, and assembly statutes, as well as the charter granting Cecilius Calvert the colony of Maryland in 1632; the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, adopted in 1669; and the treaties brokered by William Penn and various Lenni Lenape and Susquehannock tribes during the 1680s and 1690s. These founding documents were shaped by ambition, contingency, and limited resources; they reflected an ambiguous and unwieldy colonialism rather than a purposeful, uniform march to modernity. Hsueh concludes by reflecting on hybridity as a rubric for analyzing the historical origins of colonialism and reconsidering contemporary indigenous claims in former settler colonies such as Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
Book Synopsis Bills of Rights and Decolonization by : Charles Parkinson
Download or read book Bills of Rights and Decolonization written by Charles Parkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement, and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutions when negotiated between a state and its dependencies. More generally this book highlights Britain's human rights legacy to its former Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States by :
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States written by and published by Lawbook Exchange, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first compilation to collect the constitutions and charters of the United States. Originally published: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 2 vols. xii, 2102 pp. The Government Printing Office edition consisted of five thousand copies, with nine hundred for use of Senators and the Vice President, two thousand five hundred for use of the Representative and Delegates, two copies to the President of the United States, fifty copies to the Department of State, fifty copies for transmission to United States legations and consulates-general abroad, four hundred forty-five to the Library of Congress for exchanges, one copy to the War Department, one copy for the Military Academy at West Point, one copy to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, one hundred copies to the Department of Justice, one copy to the Smithsonian Institution, and one thousand copies for sale to the public, according to Geo. M. Adams, Clerk, House of Representatives, June 6, 1875. "The first compilation that purported to include the constitutions of all states...The index to this work contains citations to specific subjects on which there are provisions in the several state constitutions." -- Lawrence F. Schmeckebier, Government Publications and Their Use (1939) 194 Ben[jamin] Perley Poore [1820-1887] was a popular journalist of his era, and an active Whig. After editing the Boston Bee and Sunday Sentinel, in 1854 Poore became a Washington correspondent to the Boston Journal and a popular participant in influential Washington circles. His colorful pieces using the signature of "Perley" gave him a national reputation. In additional to his newspaper writing, Poore served as clerk of the committee of the United States Senate on printing records, where he edited the Congressional Directory beginning in 1867 and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Book Synopsis The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the Britannic Empire by : Edward Creasy
Download or read book The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the Britannic Empire written by Edward Creasy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the United States written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bills of Rights Before the Bill of Rights by : Peter J. Galie
Download or read book Bills of Rights Before the Bill of Rights written by Peter J. Galie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a documentary history of the rights found in the American state constitutions adopted between 1776 and 1790. Despite the rich tradition of rights at the state level, rights in America have been identified almost exclusively with the national Bill of Rights. Indeed, there is no work that provides a comprehensive treatment of the early state declarations of rights. Rather, these declarations have been viewed as halting first steps towards the adoption of the national Bill of Rights in 1791. Bringing together the full text of the rights provisions from the 13 original states and Vermont, this book presents America’s first tradition of rights on its own terms and as part of this country’s heritage of rights. Early chapters will examine the sources of these rights and provide a comparative framework. An introduction to each chapter will review that state’s colonial history, focusing on any charters or legislation related to rights protections that help explain its constitutional provisions. This work will make it possible for students, scholars, and interested citizens to rediscover the first fruits of the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution by : Jack P. Greene
Download or read book The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution written by Jack P. Greene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America by : Francis Newton Thorpe
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America written by Francis Newton Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
