Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Liberties, Or The Free-born Subject's Inheritance ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Liberties, Or the Free-born Subject's Inheritance, Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute de Tallogio Non Concendo, the Habeas Corpus Act, and Several Other Statutes, with Comments on Each of Them ...
Author: English Liberties; or, the Free-born subject's inheritance ... First compiled by Henry Care, and now inlarged with new and useful additions, by a Wellwisher to his Country, etc
Author: Henry CareBritish Liberties; Or, The Free-born Subject's Inheritance
Author: Henry CarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Excellent Priviledge of Liberty and Property
Author: William PennPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584773987
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Dark Inheritance
Author: Brooke N. NewmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030024097X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.
Subjects and Sovereign
Author: Hannah Weiss MullerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190465832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, when a variety of conquered and ceded territories became part of an expanding British Empire, crucial struggles emerged about what it meant to be a "British subject." Individuals in Grenada, Quebec, Minorca, Gibraltar, and Bengal debated the meanings and rights of subjecthood, with many capitalizing on legal ambiguities and local exigencies to secure access to political and economic benefits. Inhabitants and colonial administrators transformed subjecthood into a shared language, practice, and opportunity as individuals proclaimed their allegiance to the crown and laid claim to a corresponding set of protections. Approaching subjecthood as a protean and porous concept, rather than an immutable legal status, Subjects and Sovereign demonstrates that it was precisely subjecthood's fluidity and imprecision that rendered it so useful to a remarkably diverse group of individuals. In this book, Hannah Weiss Muller reexamines the traditional bond between subjects and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making throughout the eighteenth century. Muller analyzes both legal understandings of subjecthood, as well as the popular tradition of declaring rights, in order to demonstrate why subjects believed they were entitled to make requests of their sovereign. She reconsiders narratives of upheaval during the Age of Revolution and insists on the relevance and utility of existing structures of state and sovereign. Emphasizing the stories of subjects who successfully leveraged their loyalty and negotiated their status, she also explores how and why subjecthood remained an organizing and contested principle of the eighteenth-century British Empire. By placing the relationship between subjects and sovereign at the heart of her analysis, Muller offers a new perspective on a familiar period and suggests that imperial integration was as much about flexible and expansive conceptions of belonging as it was about shared economic, political, and intellectual networks.
The Levellers
Author: Rachel FoxleyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526112086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalisation of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.
The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated
Author: William MolyneuxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Magna Carta
Author: Randy James HollandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780314676719
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An authoritative two volume dictionary covering English law from earliest times up to the present day, giving a definition and an explanation of every legal term old and new. Provides detailed statements of legal terms as well as their historical context.