The enterprise colonies of Virginia -- The covenant colonies of New England -- The proprietary colonies of the Mid-Atlantic -- The emergence of the American constitutional tradition in the age of imperium -- The quest for a federal union -- The revolutionary state constitutions -- The American constitutional tradition in the Revolutionary era
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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