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020			_a9780511778452 (ebook)
020			_z9780521760935 (hardback)
020			_z9780521132305 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aKF4541 _b.G743 2010
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100	1		_aGreene, Jack P., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution / _cJack P. Greene.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (224 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aNew Histories of American Law
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aUsing 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. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding 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. 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521760935
830		0	_aNew Histories of American Law.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778452
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38779 _d38779