Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume III: The Authority to Legislate

by John Phillip Reid

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of the constitutionality of the Parliamentary legislation cited by the American Continental Congress as a justification for its rebellion against Great Britain in 1776. The content and purpose of that legislation is well known to historians, but here Reid places it in the context of eighteenth-century constitutional doctrine and discusses its legality in terms of the intellectual premises of eighteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299130703
• ISBN13: 9780299130701
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"