Author: Philip S. HaffendenPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
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The crown and the colonial charters, 1675-1688
Author: Philip S. HaffendenPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
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The American Colonial Charter
Author: Louise Phelps KelloggPublisher:
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Category : Charters
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The American Colonial Charter
Author: Louise Phelps KelloggPublisher:
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Category : Charters
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Also published as the author's thesis (Ph D.) University of Washington.
Cape Cod and Plymouth Colony in the Seventeenth Century
Author: H. Roger KingPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819191861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book examines the contribution of Cape Cod to the transformation of the Pilgrims' Plymouth into a mature colony. The author covers the exploration of the region as well as the early travels to the Cape before its settlement, explaining the eventual significance of individual towns like Sandwich, which became the colony's center of Quakerism. Politically, Cape towns forced the colony to adopt a representative legislature and economically, the Cape provided acreage for farming and sites for additional towns. King also examines why, despite the expansion and the growth, Plymouth still remained a poor and underpopulated colony. This book stands alone as the only study of the entire Cape to be published in this century.
The Creation of the British Atlantic World
Author: Elizabeth ManckePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
12 A Visual Empire: Seeing the British Atlantic World from a Global British Perspective -- 13 ""Of the Old Stock"": Quakerism and Transatlantic Genealogies in Colonial British America -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
The Papers of William Penn, Volume 2
Author: Richard S. DunnPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812278526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.
Colonial Massachusetts Laws and Liberties and the English Commonwealth
Author: Charles Edward SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004706348
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
On July 4, 1653, the Nominate or Barebones Parliament convened with a minority of committed radicals (Levellers and religious extremists) and a conservative majority of Cromwell’s allies. During acrimonious debates on law reform, the radicals demanded a condensed law book similar to the one adopted in Colonial Massachusetts. These mostly overlooked events reveal a radical wing of Puritanism determined to found a self-governing state, fully cognizant of the real possibility that England would interdict such attempts by force of arms. This work investigates the motives for such a hazardous undertaking, and the possible influences these events had on the colony’s posterity.
The World of William Penn
Author: Richard S. DunnPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512801968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.
Competing Visions of Empire
Author: Abigail L. SwingenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies, particularly the use of enslaved Africans, and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping, often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The American Constitutional Tradition
Author: H. Lowell BrownPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1683930487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The book is a work of non-fiction. The book is a historical analysis of the evolution of a uniquely American constitutionalism that began with the original English royal charters for the exploration and exploitation of North America. When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, the accepted conception of a constitution was that of the British constitution, upon which the colonists had relied in asserting their rights with respect to the imperium, comprised of ancient documents, parliamentary enactments, administrative regulations, judicial pronouncements, and established custom. Of equal significance, the laws comprising the constitution did not differ from other statutes and as a consequence, there was no law endowed with greater sanctity than other legislative enactments. In framing the revolutionary state constitutions following the retreat of the crown governments in the colonies, as well as the later federal Constitution, the Revolutionaries fundamentally reconceived a constitution as being the single authoritative source of fundamental law that was superior to all other statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions, that was ratified by the states and that was subject to revision only through a formal amendment process. This new constitutional conception has been hailed as the great innovation of the revolutionary period, and deservedly so. This American constitutionalism had its origins in the now largely overlooked royal charters for the exploration of North America beginning with the charter granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert by Elizabeth I in 1578. The book follows the development of this constitutional tradition from the early charters of the Virginia Companies and the covenants entered of the New England colonies, through the proprietary charters of the Middle Atlantic colonies. On the basis of those foundational documents, the colonists fashioned governments that came to be comprised not only of an executive, but an elected legislature and a judiciary. In those foundational documents and in the acts of the colonial legislatures, the settlers sought to harmonize their aspirations for just institutions and individual rights with the exigencies and imperatives of an alien and often hostile environment. When the colonies faced the withdrawal of the crown governments in 1775, they drew on their experience, which they formalized in written constitutions. This uniquely American constitutional tradition of the charters, covenants and state constitutions was the foundation of the federal Constitution and of the process by which the Constitution was written and ratified a decade later.