The Transatlantic Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transatlantic Constitution write by Mary Sarah Bilder. This book was released on 2008-03-31. The Transatlantic Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Madison’s Hand
Madison’s Hand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madison’s Hand write by Mary Sarah Bilder. This book was released on 2015-10-19. Madison’s Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Finalist, Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia Finalist, George Washington Prize James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitution’s creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or depicts the Convention’s charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with such narrative force. But how reliable is this account? “[A] superb study of the Constitutional Convention as selectively reflected in Madison’s voluminous notes on it...Scholars have been aware that Madison made revisions in the Notes but have not intensively explored them. Bilder has looked closely indeed at the Notes and at his revisions, and the result is this lucid, subtle book. It will be impossible to view Madison’s role at the convention and read his Notes in the same uncomplicated way again...An accessible and brilliant rethinking of a crucial moment in American history.” —Robert K. Landers, Wall Street Journal
Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861
Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 write by Charlotte A. Lerg. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 argues that the revolutionary era constituted a coherent chapter in transatlantic history and that individual revolutions were connected to a broader, transatlantic and transnational frame. As a composite, the essays place instances of political upheaval during the long nineteenth century in Europe and the Americas in a common narrative and offer a new interpretation on their seeming asynchrony. In the age of revolutions the formation of political communities and cultural interactions were closely connected over time and space. Reciprocal connections arose from discussions on the nature of history, deliberations about constitutional models, as well as the reception of revolutions in popular culture. These various levels of cultural and intellectual interchange we term “transatlantic revolutionary cultures.” Contributors are: Ulrike Bock, Anne Bruch, Peter Fischer, Mischa Honeck, Raphael Hörmann, Charlotte A. Lerg, Marc H. Lerner, Michael L. Miller, Timothy Mason Roberts, and Heléna Tóth.
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World write by Ken MacMillan. This book was released on 2006-11-23. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did English notions of sovereignty, empire and law impact their methods of settlement in the Americas?
Ratification
Ratification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ratification write by Pauline Maier. This book was released on 2011-06-07. Ratification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years.
