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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. The content and purpose of that legislation is well known to historians, but here John Phillip 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.<br> <i>The Authority of Law</i> is the last of a four-volume work, preceded by <i>The Authority to Tax, The Authority of Rights,</i> and <i>The Authority to Legislate</i>. In these previous volumes, Reid argued that there would have been no rebellion had taxation been the only constitutional topic of controversy, that issues of rights actually played a larger role in the drafting of state and federal constitutions than they did in instigating a rebellion, and that the American colonists finally took to the battlefield against the British because of statutes that forced Americans to either concede the authority to legislate or leave the empire.<br> &nbs
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- Author
- John Phillip Reid
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299108700
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Law, Political Science
Other editions & translations
- Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority Of Rights Volume 1: Rights (1986)
- Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume IV: The Authority of Law (v. 4) (1986)
- The Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Vol. 1: The Authority of Rights (1986)
- Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume I: The Authority Of Rights (Volume 1) (Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-179) (1986)
- Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume II: The Authority To Tax (v. 2) (1986)
- Constitutional History Of The American Revolution, Volume Iii: The Authority To Legislate (v. 3) (1986)
- The Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority to Legislate (1991)
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