Download or read book Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America written by Sir Francis Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.

Download or read book Constitutional History of the American Revolution Volume II written by John Phillip Reid and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.

Download or read book The Ideological Origins of American Federalism written by Alison L. LaCroix and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically traced to the drafting of the Constitution, but the story began decades before the delegates met in Philadelphia. In this groundbreaking book, Alison LaCroix traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple independent levels of government could legitimately exist within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was not a defect but a virtue. This belief became a foundational principle and aspiration of the American political enterprise. LaCroix thus challenges the traditional account of republican ideology as the single dominant framework for eighteenth-century American political thought. Understanding the emerging federal ideology returns constitutional thought to the central place that it occupied for the founders. Federalism was not a necessary adaptation to make an already designed system work; it was the system. Connecting the colonial, revolutionary, founding, and early national periods in one story reveals the fundamental reconfigurations of legal and political power that accompanied the formation of the United States. The emergence of American federalism should be understood as a critical ideological development of the period, and this book is essential reading for everyone interested in the American story.

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Download or read book The Works of John Adams Vol 4 written by John Adams and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Adams was the second President of the United States, ruling the country from 1797 to 1801, and one of the Founding Fathers. He was also a major leader of American independence from Great Britain. This is volume four out of ten of his works, this book containing Novanglus, Thoughts on the Government and the first Defence of the Constitution. The text is annotated with more than 380 endnotes.

Download or read book Novanglus and Massachusettensis or political essays published in 1774 and 1775 on the principal points of controversy between Great Britain and her colonies the former by John Adams the latter by Jonathan Sewall or rather Daniel Leonard To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon William Tudor etc written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Novanglus and Massachusettensis Or Political Essays Published in the Years 1774 and 1775 on the Principal Points of Controversy Between Great Britain and Her Colonies written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Novanglus and Massachusettensis Or Political Essays written by John Adams and published by Boston : Hews & Goss. This book was released on 1819 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the eve of the American Revolution, this volume of essays contains John Adams' earliest thoughts on the American republic. Adams attacks essays by Daniel Leonard that assert that the British Parliament had absolute control over the colonies. Adams thoroughly refutes Leonard's essays and then launches into a learned and nuanced counterargument. Using his deep knowledge of English and colonial legal history, Adams proves decisively that the British Parliament's jurisdiction is limited to domestic affairs. The colonies were connected to Britain only through the king.

Download or read book Novanglus and Massachusettensis written by John Adams and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth Century Britain written by Jack P. Greene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years' War produced a substantial critique of empire. This critique evolved out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviours exhibited by Britons overseas and built on a language of 'otherness' that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies and polities that Britons abroad constructed in their new habitats. It used the languages of humanity and justice as standards to evaluate and condemn the behaviours of both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa or Ireland.

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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams written by John Adams and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the writings of John Adams and his conservative political philosophy as it fits in the American tradition, providing the text of his major works, letters, and essays.