Author: Sir William KEITHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of papers and other tracts ... on various subjects. To which is prefixed ... an essay on the nature of a publick spirit
Author: Sir William KEITHPennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Author: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Author: The Extensive Library of the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker
Author: Samuel Whitaker PennypackerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The King’s Peace
Author: Lisa FordPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674269519
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the foundations of the modern police state. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Empire responded to numerous crises in its colonies, from North America to Jamaica, Bengal to New South Wales. This was the Age of Revolution, and the Crown, through colonial governors, tested an array of coercive peacekeeping methods in a desperate effort to maintain control. In the process these leaders transformed what it meant to be a British subject. In the decades after the American Revolution, colonial legal regimes were transformed as the king’s representatives ruled new colonies with an increasingly heavy hand. These new autocratic regimes blurred the lines between the rule of law and the rule of the sword. Safeguards of liberty and justice, developed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, were eroded while exacting obedience and imposing order became the focus of colonial governance. In the process, many constitutional principles of empire were subordinated to a single, overarching rule: where necessary, colonial law could diverge from metropolitan law. Within decades of the American Revolution, Lisa Ford shows, the rights claimed by American rebels became unthinkable in the British Empire. Some colonial subjects fought back but, in the empire, the real winner of the American Revolution was the king. In tracing the dramatic growth of colonial executive power and the increasing deployment of arbitrary policing and military violence to maintain order, The King’s Peace provides important lessons on the relationship between peacekeeping, sovereignty, and political subjectivity—lessons that illuminate contemporary debates over the imbalance between liberty and security.
The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part II
Author: Jack P GreenePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100017333X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783.
Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection
Author: Matthew CrowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107161932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Through his discussion of Thomas Jefferson, historian Matthew Crow offers a new perspective on constitutional transformation in early American history.
Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.).
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Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George BrinleyPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, Conn
Author: George BrinleyPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description