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Constituting empire : New York and the transformation of constitutionalism in the Atlantic world, 1664-1830 / Daniel J. Hulsebosch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hulsebosch, Daniel Joseph, author.
- Series:
- Studies in legal history.
- Studies in legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--New York (State).
- Constitutional history.
- New York (State)--Politics and government--To 1775.
- New York (State).
- New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explains how colonists and administrators reconfigured British legal sources to suit their needs in an expanding empire. This story captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Constitutions and Empire; PART I: The Imperial Origins of New York; PART II: Imperia in Imperio: Property and Sovereignty in a Frontier Province; PART III: Imperial Civil War and Reconstitution; PART IV: Postcolonial Constitutionalism and Transatlantic Legal Culture; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890875211
- 9780807876879
- 0807876879
- OCLC:
- 476236880
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