Constitutional History of the American Revolution V. 4; Authority of LawUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2003 - 288 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. |
Contents
THE COERCIVE ACTS | 9 |
The Massachusetts Acts | 12 |
The Quebec Act | 23 |
THE COERCIVE GRIEVANCE | 27 |
The Arbitrary Grievance | 29 |
The Liberty Grievance | 37 |
THE SUPREMACY ISSUE | 43 |
The Supremacy Cause | 47 |
The Problems of Representation | 99 |
Representation Rejected | 102 |
INTERMEDIATE SOLUTIONS | 108 |
The Galloway Plan | 112 |
PARLIAMENTARY SOLUTIONS | 119 |
The Repeal Solution | 125 |
RIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND RENUNCIATION SOLUTIONS | 134 |
The Acknowledgment Solution | 138 |
THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION ISSUE | 52 |
The Kingliness of Parliament | 55 |
The Englishness of Americans | 60 |
Revolution Principles | 63 |
THE LIBERTY ISSUE | 69 |
The Security Issue | 72 |
The SubjectsofSubjects Issue | 76 |
THE REPRESENTATION ISSUE | 83 |
The Autonomy Issue | 88 |
REPRESENTATION SOLUTIONS | 97 |