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Draft of a Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to the Gov. of Connecticut, Regarding an Earlier Petition
Author: Draft of a Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to the Governor and Company of Connecticut Regarding a Tax
Author: Draft of a Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to Gov. William Tryon Regarding Lands West of the Connecticut River
Author: Draft of a Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to the Governors and Companies of Connecticut and Rhode Island
Author: Draft of a Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to the Deputy Gov. of Pennsylvania Regarding a Petition of the Assembly
Author: Draft of a Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to Governor Trumbull, Responding to Trumbull's Earlier Letters and Informing Him of the Repeal of an Earlier Act
Author: Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to Gov. Tryon Regarding Captain Frisby's Petition
Author: Constitutional History of the American Revolution
Author: John Phillip ReidPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299130701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Brilliantly executed....Reid's central argument is reserved for his contentions about how the American Revolution occurred within the British constitutional framework. Crucial is his assertion that the eighteenth-century British constitution itself was a vital crossroad between the old constitution of 'customary powers, with rights secured as property' and the newer constitution 'of sovereign command and of arbitrary parliamentary supremacy.' The conflict between the two was profound and ultimately irreconcilable as the Americans, with occasional misgivings and uncertainties, sustained the old and Parliament lurched toward the new...This book (has) a compelling intellectual force that deserves the closest scrutiny.' -George M. Curtis III, American Historical Review
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