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03224aam a2200505 a 4500 001 DD7182E8925D11E0AC5CE7A56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110609010037 008 100720s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010030377 020 $a 0511909985 (e-book) 020 $a 9780511909986 (e-book) 020 $a 0521132304 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780521132305 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0521760933 (hardback) 020 $a 9780521760935 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)644660442 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d C#P $d BWX $d CDX $d PUL $d COO $d STF $d UCDLL $d CHRRO $d IOM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a KF4541 $b .G743 2010 072 7 $a s1zz $2 rero 082 00 $a 342.7302 $2 22 100 1 $a Greene, Jack P. 245 1 $a The constitutional origins of the American Revolution / $c Jack P. Greene. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c c2011. 300 $a xxiv, 198 p. ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a New histories of American law 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision of thirteen continental colonies to secede from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution and the empire as whole having an uncodified working customary constitution that determined the way authority was distributed within the empire. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Prologue : inheritance -- Empire negotiated, 1689-1763 -- Empire confronted, 1764-1766 -- Empire reconsidered, 1767-1773 -- Empire shattered, 1774-1776 -- Epilogue : legacy. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States $x States. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z Great Britain $x Colonies. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Revolution, 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y To 1775. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1775-1783. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History. $z America $x History. 830 0 $a New histories of American law. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200603014006.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044342.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180110034302.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD7182E8925D11E0AC5CE7A56AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b IOMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search