The American Constitutional Tradition - Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578-1780

Closer examination of foundational, revolutionary documents, and of the colonial legislation enacted on the basis of those foundational documents, reveals an American tradition of constitutionalism that the Revolutionaries were able to draw upon when fashioning their constitutions for the newly independent states and for the federal government.

List of contents

Part I Constitutionalism in Colonial America, 1578 To 1775
Foreword
Chapter 1 The Enterprise Colony of Virginia
Chapter 2 The Covenant Colonies of New England
Chapter 3 The Proprietary Colonies of The Mid-Atlantic
Chapter 4 The Emergence of the American Constitutional Tradition in the Age of the Imperium
Part II Revolutionary Constitutionalism
Chapter 5 The Quest for Federal Union
Chapter 6 The Revolutionary State Constitutions
Chapter 7 The American Constitutional Tradition in The Revolutionary Era
Bibliography

About the author

By H. Lowell Brown

Product details

• Authors: H. Lowell Brown
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2019
• EAN: 9781683930495
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-049-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories