The First American Constitutions

Chapel Hill / Williamsburg: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1980. Scholarly account of the development of State Constitutions in the American colonies from about 1773-1780, prior to the great Federal Constitution of 1787, from a Continental point of view, which, the jacket flap assures us, allows the author a more detached… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas and institutional arangements that constitute the first states constitutions.

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Paperback / softback. New. This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the US Constitution, and another chapter testing the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas and institutional arangements that constitute the first states constitutions.

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Paperback. New. expanded edition. 378 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.