by John Phillip Reid
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-299-10870-0 | eISBN: 978-0-299-10873-1 | Paper: 978-0-299-10874-8
Library of Congress Classification KF4749.R45 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.73085

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Constitutional History of the American Revolution

Volume I: The Authority of Rights

Volume II: The Authority to Tax

Volume III: The Authority to Legislate

Volume IV: The Authority of Law


John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.


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