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<p>This is the first comprehensive study of the constitutionality of the Parliamentary legislation cited by the American Continental Congress as a justification for its rebellion against Great Britain in 1776.&nbsp; The content and purpose of that legislation is well known to historians, but here Reid places it in the context of eighteenth-century constitutional doctrine and discusses its legality in terms of the intellectual premises of eighteenth-century Anglo-American legal values.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The third installment in a planned four-volume work, <i>The Authority to Legislate</i>&nbsp; follows <i>The Authority to Tax</i> and <i>The Authority of Rights</i>.&nbsp; In this volume, Reid shows that the inflexibility of British constitutional principle left no room for settlement or change;&nbsp; Parliament became entrapped by the imperatives of the constitution it was struggling to preserve.&nbsp; He analyzes the legal theories put forward in support of Parliament’s authority to legislate and the specific precedents cited as evidence of that authority.&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reid’s examination of both the debate over the authority to legislate and the cons

Author

Reid, John Phillip.

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press, c1991.

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299139803

Subjects

Law, Political Science, History