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Constituting Empire

New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830

By: Daniel J. Hulsebosch

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Constituting Empire

New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830

By: Daniel J. Hulsebosch

According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state rather than a mere description of governmental roles. Daniel J. Hulsebosch complicates this viewpoint by arguing that American ideas of constitutions were based on British ones and that, in New York, those ideas evolved over the long eighteenth century as New York moved from the periphery of the British Atlantic empire to the center of a new continental empire. Hulsebosch explains how colonists and administrators reconfigured British legal sources to suit their needs in an expanding empire. In this story, familiar characters such as Alexander Hamilton and James Kent appear in a new light as among the nation's most important framers, and forgotten loyalists such as Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson and lawyer William Smith Jr. are rightly returned to places of prominence. In his paradigm-shifting analysis, Hulsebosch captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown as the source of legitimate authority, also led to the establishment of a newly powerful constitution and a new postcolonial genre of constitutional law that would have been the envy of the British imperial agents who had struggled to govern the colonies before the Revolution.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876879

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On the Battlefield of Merit

Harvard Law School, the First Century

By: Daniel R. Coquillette,Bruce A. Kimball

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On the Battlefield of Merit

Harvard Law School, the First Century

By: Daniel R. Coquillette,Bruce A. Kimball

Harvard Law School pioneered educational ideas, including professional legal education within a university, Socratic questioning and case analysis, and the admission and training of students based on academic merit. On the Battlefield of Merit offers a candid account of a unique legal institution during its first century of influence.

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Harvard University Press

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0674967666

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Constituting Empire

New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830

By: Daniel J. Hulsebosch

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New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830

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Desperately Seeking Certainty

The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations

By: Daniel A. Farber,Suzanna Sherry

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Desperately Seeking Certainty

The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations

By: Daniel A. Farber,Suzanna Sherry

Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multifaceted common law methods already used by the Court provide a far better means of reaching sound decisions and controlling judicial discretion than do any of the grand theories.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226238105

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9780226238104

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Constituting Empire

Constituting Empire

On the Battlefield of Merit

On the Battlefield of Merit

Constituting Empire

Constituting Empire

Desperately Seeking Certainty

Desperately Seeking Certainty

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