Bills of Rights Before the Bill of Rights Early State Constitutions and the American Tradition of Rights, 1776-1790

This book is a documentary history of the rights found in the American state constitutions adopted between 1776 and 1790. Despite the rich tradition of rights at the state level, rights in America have been identified almost exclusively with the national Bill of Rights. Indeed, there is no work that...

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Autor principal: Galie, Peter J. (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Bopst, Christopher, Kirschner, Bethany
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2020.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rights in Colonial America: 1620-1776
  • 3. The Rights Tradition in America's First Constitution
  • 4. Virginia
  • 5. Pennsylvania
  • 6. Maryland
  • 7. Delaware
  • 8. North Carolina
  • 9. Vermont
  • 10. Massachusetts
  • 11. New Hampshire
  • 12. South Carolina
  • 13. New Jersey
  • 14. Georgia
  • 15. New York
  • 16. Connecticut
  • 17. Rhode Island
  • 18. Reflections. .