"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...
"Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violat...
The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive conditions of law imposed by Britain.
Examining the most rebellious American colony, Massachusetts Bay, Professor Reid finds that law was locally controlled while imperial law was almost nonexistent as an influence on the daily lives of individuals. In Ireland the same English...
The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law th...
Constitutional History of the American Revolution Volume I: The Authority of Rights Volume II: The Authority to Tax Volume III: The Authority to Legislate Volume IV: The Authority of Law
John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.
Constitutional History of the American Revolution Volume I: The Authority of Rights Volume II: The Authority to Tax Volume III: The ...
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the au...
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the au...
This volume is the last of a set. Expanding on the evidence presented in the first three volumes, it determines the constitutional issues dividing American Whigs from British imperialists. Reid suggests these issues centre on supremacy, the Glorious Revolution, liberty and representation.
This volume is the last of a set. Expanding on the evidence presented in the first three volumes, it determines the constitutional issues dividing Ame...
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the au...
Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics?
To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid s Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and Great Britain had claimed this region, and passions were intense. Focusing mainly on Canadian explorer and trader Peter Skene Ogden, Reid finds that both side largely avoided violence...
Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics...
In today's courtroom, the jurors evaluate the evidence and pronounce the verdict while the judge has final authority in interpreting the law--but it was not always so. In colonial America, the jurors enjoyed a much greater say. Legal historian John Phillip Reid recounts how the judges gained their modern authority in the early nineteenth century by instituting courtroom practices modeled on the English "common law" judicial system. Reid brings this transformation, which in the days of the Early Republic spread throughout the states and even to the federal courts, down to human scale by...
In today's courtroom, the jurors evaluate the evidence and pronounce the verdict while the judge has final authority in interpreting the law--but it w...
Rule of law - the idea that the law is the nation's sovereign authority - has served as a cornerstone for constitutional theory and the jurisprudence of liberty. When law reigns over governors and the governed alike, a citizen need not fear capricious monarchs, arbitrary judges, or calculating bureaucrats. When a citizen obeys the law, life, liberty, and property are safe; if a citizen disobeys, the law alone will determine the appropriate punishment. While the rule of law's English roots can be found in the Middle Ages, its governing doctrine rose to power during the seventeenth and...
Rule of law - the idea that the law is the nation's sovereign authority - has served as a cornerstone for constitutional theory and the jurisprudence ...
