Constitutional History of the American Revolution

by Reid, John Phillip

• ISBN13: 9780299108748
• ISBN10: 0299108740
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(9)
The Englishness of Rights	9	(7)
Bestness of Rights	11	(5)
Rights in General	16	(11)
Continental Rights	17	(4)
Right to Petition	21	(2)
Rule of Law	23	(1)
Timelessness of Rights	24	(3)
The Right to Property	27	(7)
The Centrality of Property	29	(2)
Liberty and Property	31	(3)
The Right to Security	34	(5)
Government and Property	36	(3)
The Right to Government	39	(8)
Representation and Property	41	(3)
The Definition of Property	44	(3)
The Jury Right	47	(13)
The Value of Jury	48	(4)
The Threat to Jury	52	(3)
The British Analogy	55	(5)
Equality of Rights	60	(5)
The Equality Dilemma	62	(3)
Authority of Rights	65	(9)
The Immemoriality of Rights	67	(4)
Statutory Rights	71	(1)
Rights by Custom	72	(2)
Constitutional Authority	74	(8)
Rights at Law	75	(3)
The End of Government	78	(4)
The Right to Isonomy	82	(5)
Equality in Rights	83	(2)
The Imperial Inequality	85	(2)
The Authority of Nature	87	(9)
Natural Rights	88	(2)
The Irrelevancy of Natural Rights	90	(2)
The Mythology of Natural Rights	92	(4)
Rights as Property	96	(7)
The Vocabulary of Property	98	(3)
The Tenure of Rights	101	(2)
Property in Rights	103	(11)
The Property Imperative	106	(1)
The American Language	107	(2)
The American Inheritance	109	(2)
The Importance of Property	111	(3)
The Authority of Migration	114	(10)
The Significance of Migration	115	(3)
The Right of Migration	118	(2)
The Expectation of Migration	120	(1)
The Purpose of Migration	121	(1)
The Equality of Migration	122	(2)
The Migration Purchase	124	(8)
The Cost of Migration	125	(2)
The Physical Purchase	127	(2)
The Value-Added Purchase	129	(3)
The Original Contract	132	(7)
The Theory of Contract	134	(2)
The Reality of Contract	136	(1)
The Terms of the Contract	137	(2)
The Original Colonial Contract	139	(7)
The Implied Colonial Contract	141	(4)
The Taxation Stipulation	145	(1)
The Reality of Contract	146	(13)
The Specificity of Contract	149	(1)
The Contract of Promise	150	(3)
The Proclamation Contract	153	(2)
The Rule of Campbell v. Hall	155	(4)
The Evidence of Charter	159	(10)
The Contract of Charter	160	(2)
The Rights of Charter	162	(2)
The Probativeness of Charter	164	(5)
The Colonial Grievances	169	(8)
The American Complaints	173	(4)
The Admiralty Grievance	177	(7)
The Procedural Grievances	178	(1)
The Civil-Law Grievance	179	(2)
The Inequality Grievance	181	(3)
The Duty of Rights	184	(6)
The Duty to Transmit	185	(2)
The Duties to Preserve and Defend	187	(3)
The Exigency of Rights	190	(9)
The Search-Warrant Grievance	193	(6)
The Issue of Rights	199	(10)
The Rights Instructions	200	(5)
The Seriousness of Rights	205	(4)
The Causation of Rights	209	(9)
The Motivation of Rights	211	(5)
The Motivation of Constitutionalism	216	(2)
The Redress of Rights	218	(9)
The Redress of Grievances	220	(7)
Conclusion	227	(14)
Acknowledgments	241	(2)
Short Titles	243	(74)
Notes	317	(47)
Index	364