
American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
By Charles Howard McIlwainLength4h 21m
About this audiobook
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the political act or acts by which British sovereignty over the thirteen English colonies in North America was definitely repudiated. All else was nothing but cause or effect of this act. Of the causes, some were economic, some social, others constitutional. But the Revolution itself was none of these; not social, nor economic, nor even constitutional; it was a political act, and such an act cannot be both constitutional and revolutionary; the terms are mutually exclusive. So long as American opposition to alleged grievances was constitutional it was in no sense revolutionary. The moment it became revolutionary it ceased to be constitutional. When was that moment reached?
The Problem
The Precedents
The Realm and the Dominions
The Precedents
Natural and Fundamental Law
Taxation and Virtual Representation
The Charters
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 16, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
4CHAPTER II THE PRECEDENTS—THE REAM AND THE DOMINIONS (pt. 2)
2CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY—THE PROBLEM
5CHAPTER III THE PRECEDENTS—NATURAL AND FUNDAMENTAL LAW, TAXATION AND VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION, THE CHARTERS
3CHAPTER II THE PRECEDENTS—THE REAM AND THE DOMINIONS (pt. 1)
6CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION