American Revolution A Constitutional Interpretation
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American Revolution by Charles Howard McIlwain Pdf
American Revolution is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the political act or acts by which British sovereignty over the thirteen English colonies in North America was definitely repudiated. All else was nothing but cause or effect of this act. Of the causes, some were economic, some social, others constitutional. But the Revolution itself was none of these; not social, nor economic, nor even constitutional; it was a political act, and such an act cannot be both constitutional and revolutionary; the terms are mutually exclusive. So long as American opposition to alleged grievances was constitutional it was in no sense revolutionary. The moment it became revolutionary it ceased to be constitutional. When was that moment reached? The Problem The Precedents The Realm and the Dominions The Precedents Natural and Fundamental Law Taxation and Virtual Representation The Charters
The American Revolution by Charles Howard 1871-1968 McIlwain Pdf
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The Articles of Confederation by Merrill Jensen Pdf
"Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a presidential election."--Social Studies "An admirable analysis. It presents, in succinct form, the results of a generation of study of this chapter of our history and summarizes fairly the conclusions of that study."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Times Book Review
To Secure These Rights by Scott Douglas Gerber Pdf
From the opening chapter's bold revision of the character of the American Revolution to the closing chapter's provocative reinterpretation of many of the most famous cases in Supreme Court history, this book demonstrates the importance of approaching constitutional interpretation from more than one discipline. Indeed, Gerber's analysis reveals that the Constitution cannot be properly understood without recourse to history, political philosophy, and law.
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles A. Beard Pdf
This classic study — one of the most influential in the area of American economic history — questioned the founding fathers' motivations and prompted new perceptions of the supreme law of the land.
St. Andrew's American Revolution by Donald E. Wilson Pdf
St. Andrew's American Revolution reveals the Founding Fathers' vision of the U.S. Constitution and returns Constitutional scholarship to the Scottish Whig philosophy that fueled the fire of revolution in the early American colonies.Americans often confuse and co-mingle the terms British and English, which has today given a complete misinterpretation of the American founding. "The Rights of Englishmen" did not exist until 1689 and only then existed because the Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought a bill of rights to Britain - not merely England.The British Bill of Rights continued a centuries long Scottish tradition of the rights that had only been experimented with in England in the 1640s before the English rejected republicanism and established Oliver Cromwell's authoritarian rule.The present idea that the top-down, divine-right monarchy of England somehow birthed a Federalism of devolved power to protect the rights of the people rather than the rulers is absurd.This book illustrates the Founders' understanding of the birth of the United States and explains the historical context and understanding they used to write the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.St. Andrew's American Revolution corrects the errors introduced into Constitutional interpretation by early English authors, post-civil war political hacks, 1880s propagandists for corporations and big labor, early 1900s Marxist Charles Beard, and modern-day atheists.Any American who has wondered why constitutional interpretation by "experts" seems to have nothing to do with the words written in the U.S. Constitution will find this book a must read.Find out -•What the founders really thought of English Government and why they were adamant during the Constitutional Convention that the government in London not be duplicated in the United States.•What James Madison, Jr. really thought of people like Scottish anglophile David Hume and French Baron de Montesquieu.•Why German immigrants from Pennsylvania fought but the ones from South Carolina did not.•How one act by John Jay shows concisely how the present-day American Government is operating outside the bounds of the U.S. Constitution. •Why no one can fully understand the Constitution without understanding the difference between “compact” and “contract” as illustrated by Madison's words to Luther Martin in the Constitutional Convention.•Why the difference between the words “compact” and “contract” means it is more important that every constitutional scholar know the names of Buchanan, Fletcher, and Witherspoon instead of Hobbes, Hume, and Hamilton.•Why James Wilson's words at the Pennsylvania ratifying convention comprise the greatest lie told in the history of American politics, were subversive, and border on treason.•Why before the revolution John Calvin was considered the father of the country.Americans, historians, and political theorists will all benefit from reading St. Andrew's American Revolution.
Author : Ellen Frankel Paul,Howard Dickman Publisher : State University of New York Press Page : 210 pages File Size : 46,5 Mb Release : 1988-12-20 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9781438415642
Liberty, Property, and the Foundations of the American Constitution by Ellen Frankel Paul,Howard Dickman Pdf
Here is what the Framers of the Constitution thought about economic rights. To the current debate over constitutional interpretation, this book adds a dispassionate examination of our beginnings. It focuses on the philosophical, political, and social currents that influenced the thought and behavior of the Framers. What was the relationship between property rights and liberty? How important to the Framers was the protection of economic liberties? In what ways does the Constitution protect these liberties? Was the Constitution a document forged with the intent of securing what would later be called a capitalist system? Or were the Framers primarily concerned with promoting a society based upon civic virtue? These are a few of the major themes that the authors of this volume address.
Examines of the rise of constitutionalism from the "democratic strands" in the works of Aristotle and Cicero through the transitional moment between the medieval and the modern eras.
American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain Pdf
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the political act or acts by which British sovereignty over the thirteen English colonies in North America was definitely repudiated. All else was nothing but cause or effect of this act. Of the causes, some were economic, some social, others constitutional. But the Revolution itself was none of these; not social, nor economic, nor even constitutional; it was a political act, and such an act cannot be both constitutional and revolutionary; the terms are mutually exclusive. So long as American opposition to alleged grievances was constitutional it was in no sense revolutionary. The moment it became revolutionary it ceased to be constitutional. When was that moment reached? The Problem The Precedents The Realm and the Dominions The Precedents Natural and Fundamental Law Taxation and Virtual Representation The Charters
Constitutional History of the American Revolution by John Phillip Reid Pdf
Designed for use in courses, this abridged edition of the four-volume Constitutional History of the American Revolution demonstrates how significant constitutional disputes were in instigating the American Revolution. John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement. Reid's distinctive analysis discusses the irreconcilable nature of this conflict--irreconcilable not because leaders in politics on both sides did not desire a solution, but because the dynamics of constitutional law impeded a solution that permitted the colonies to remain part of the dominions of George III.
