American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the political act or acts by which British sovereignty over the thirteen English colonies in North America was definitely repudiated. All else was nothing but cause or effect of this act. Of the causes, some were economic, some social, others constitutional. But the Revolution itself was none of these; not social, nor economic, nor even constitutional; it was a political act, and such an act cannot be both constitutional and revolutionary; the terms are mutually exclusive. So long as American opposition to alleged grievances was constitutional it was in no sense revolutionary. The moment it became revolutionary it ceased to be constitutional. When was that moment reached? The Problem The Precedents The Realm and the Dominions The Precedents Natural and Fundamental Law Taxation and Virtual Representation The Charters

Author: Charles Howard McIlwain
Publisher: E-Artnow
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d
ISBN13: 9788027342426
ISBN10: 8027342422
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

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