Author : John Phillip Reid
Release : 1986
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Constitutional History of the American Revolution by : John Phillip Reid

Download or read book Constitutional History of the American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly executed....Reid's central argument is reserved for his contentions about how the American Revolution occurred within the British constitutional framework. Crucial is his assertion that the eighteenth-century British constitution itself was a vital crossroad between the old constitution of 'customary powers, with rights secured as property' and the newer constitution 'of sovereign command and of arbitrary parliamentary supremacy.' The conflict between the two was profound and ultimately irreconcilable as the Americans, with occasional misgivings and uncertainties, sustained the old and Parliament lurched toward the new...This book (has) a compelling intellectual force that deserves the closest scrutiny.' -George M. Curtis III, American Historical Review