Author: John MissingPublisher:
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Category : Assembly, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A Letter to the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield ...
Author: John MissingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assembly, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A Letter to the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield ...
Author: John AlmonA Letter to the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield
Author: John MissingA Letter to the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield
Author: John MissingPublisher:
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Category : Assembly, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Letter to the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
Author: John MissingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assembly, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution
Author: John Phillip ReidPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226708980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violating constitutional precepts. Colonial Whigs did not fight for American rights. They fought for English rights."—from the Preface John Phillip Reid goes on to argue that it was generally the application, not the definition, of these rights that was disputed. The sole—and critical—exception concerned the right of representation. American perceptions of the responsibility of representatives to their constituents, the necessity of equal representation, and the constitutional function of consent had diverged gradually, but significantly, from British tradition. Drawing on his mastery of eighteenth-century legal thought, Reid explores the origins and shifting meanings of representation, consent, arbitrary rule, and constitution. He demonstrates that the controversy which led to the American Revolution had more to do with jurisprudential and constitutional principles than with democracy and equality. This book will interest legal historians, Constitutional scholars, and political theorists.
The Gentleman's and London Magazine
Author: Bibliotheca Firmiana
Author: The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution
Author: John Phillip ReidPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226708966
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.
A Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: J. N. AdamsPublisher: Avero Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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