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The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution
John Phillip Reid
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 1989
主題
History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Social History
Law / General
Law / Civil Procedure
Law / Jurisprudence
Law / Legal History
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Law Enforcement
ISBN
0226708985
9780226708980
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xH2lEKIZ4yMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violating constitutional precepts. Colonial Whigs did not fight for American rights. They fought for English rights."—from the Preface
John Phillip Reid goes on to argue that it was generally the application, not the definition, of these rights that was disputed. The sole—and critical—exception concerned the right of representation. American perceptions of the responsibility of representatives to their constituents, the necessity of equal representation, and the constitutional function of consent had diverged gradually, but significantly, from British tradition. Drawing on his mastery of eighteenth-century legal thought, Reid explores the origins and shifting meanings of representation, consent, arbitrary rule, and constitution. He demonstrates that the controversy which led to the American Revolution had more to do with jurisprudential and constitutional principles than with democracy and equality. This book will interest legal historians, Constitutional scholars, and political theorists.