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

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.

• | Author: H. Lowell Brown
• | Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• | Publication Date: May 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1683930479
• | ISBN-13: 9781683930471