Download or read book Colonial Massachusetts Laws and Liberties and the English Commonwealth written by Charles Edward Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 4, 1653, the Nominate or Barebones Parliament convened with a minority of committed radicals (Levellers and religious extremists) and a conservative majority of Cromwell’s allies. During acrimonious debates on law reform, the radicals demanded a condensed law book similar to the one adopted in Colonial Massachusetts. These mostly overlooked events reveal a radical wing of Puritanism determined to found a self-governing state, fully cognizant of the real possibility that England would interdict such attempts by force of arms. This work investigates the motives for such a hazardous undertaking, and the possible influences these events had on the colony’s posterity.
Download or read book Colonial Massachusetts Laws and Liberties and the English Commonwealth written by Charles Edward Smith and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Massachusetts law books were influenced by long term influences such as the English Commonwealth, the Reformation, and English law reform. This volume explores how Massachusetts government and its laws developed in tandem with forces unleashed by the English Revolution and Civil Wars.
Download or read book A Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1686 written by William Henry Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Development of Constitutional Liberty in the English Colonies of America written by Eben Greenough Scott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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Download or read book The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusets is the first compilation of laws and constitutional rights printed in English America. Six hundred copies were produced in 1648 and most were given free of charge to magistrates and deputies who sat in the court. When a documentary collection of seventeenth-century Massachusetts laws was published in 1890, not a single copy could be found and it was consequently omitted from the volume. A few years later, one was discovered in England. It was purchased by Henry E. Huntington in 1911. In 1929 the Huntington and Harvard University Press published a line-by-line type facsimile of this unique book. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of this important milestone in the legal history of the United States, the Huntington published in 1998 a limited-edition facsimile of the 1929 volume. Illustrated with a reproduction of two pages from the original volume, the book is printed on fine quality paper with elegant binding and endpapers. An introduction by Professor Richard S. Dunn of the University of Pennsylvania explains the importance of this book to the formation of the American legal system. In addition to its obvious interest for any student of law or colonial history, the subject matter of many of its statutes will give the layman a revealing picture of everyday life in colonial America.
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Download or read book Of Law and Liberty in Colonial Massachusetts 1630 1650 an Address by George L Haskins Delivered Before the Annual Meeting of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Held at the Philadelphia Club March 13 1958 written by Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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