The American Constitutional Tradition: Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578-1780

by H Lowell Brown and H. Lowell Brown

Book Overview

Closer examination of foundational, revolutionary documents, and of the colonial legislation enacted on the basis of those foundational documents, reveals an American tradition of constitutionalism that the Revolutionaries were able to draw upon when fashioning their constitutions for the newly independent states and for the federal government.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683930479
• ISBN13: 9781683930471
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"