Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The authority of law, Volume 4University of Wisconsin Press, 1986 - 279 pages This is the first comprehensive study of the constitutionality of the Parliamentary legislation cited by the American Continental Congress as a justification for its rebellion against Great Britain in 1776. The content and purpose of that legislation is well known to historians, but here John Phillip Reid places it in the context of eighteenth-century constitutional doctrine and discusses its legality in terms of the intellectual premises of eighteenth-century Anglo-American legal values. |
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... Britain , on the other hand , may , in the plentitude of power , be retracted . ” 32 Two of Jenings's words summed up the constitutional predicament— " hope " and " retract . " America would hope that Parliament would not retract ...
... Britain with Respect to her American Colonies Considered . London , 1782 . Anglo - American Political Relations ... Britain Anonymous , An Address to the People of Great - Britain in General , the Mem- bers of Parliament , and the ...
... Britain and the Colonies , " 6 December 1774 , Revolution Documents 8 : 236 . 36 John Adams's Notes of Debates , 28 September 1774 , Letters of Delegates to Congress 1 : 110 . 37 Ferling , Loyalist Mind , p . 95 . 38 " Proposed Union ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
The Massachusetts Acts | 12 |
The Quebec Act | 23 |
Copyright | |
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