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Constituting Empire
Daniel J. Hulsebosch
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Description for Constituting Empire
Paperback. Captures the paradox at the heart of American constitutional history. This title argues that the revolutionary transformation did not, therefore, consist of a conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state. Series: Studies in Legal History. Num Pages: 504 pages, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
In his paradigm-shifting analysis, Daniel J. Hulsebosch captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown as the source of legitimate authority, also led to the establishment of newly powerful constitutions and a new postcolonial genre of constitutional law that would have been the envy of the British imperial agents who had struggled to govern the colonies before the Revolution.The revolutionary transformation did not, therefore, consist of a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state, ... Read more
In his paradigm-shifting analysis, Daniel J. Hulsebosch captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown as the source of legitimate authority, also led to the establishment of newly powerful constitutions and a new postcolonial genre of constitutional law that would have been the envy of the British imperial agents who had struggled to govern the colonies before the Revolution.The revolutionary transformation did not, therefore, consist of a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Legal History
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807859209
SKU
V9780807859209
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About Daniel J. Hulsebosch
DANIEL J. HULSEBOSCH is professor of law and history at New York University School of Law.
Reviews for Constituting Empire
"Hulsebosch brilliantly describes [how] the constitution of the British Empire was rarely settled and almost always hotly contested. There were, Hulsebosch tells us, many constitutions of empire in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, at least three of which played themselves out in the American Revolution." - Harvard Law Review"