Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study
argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America
created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to
resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental
colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those
historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their
side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this
volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of
constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own
discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot
be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues
that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial
understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions
and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to
the American Revolution.
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