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Two Revolutions and the Constitution - How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution (Paperback)
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Two Revolutions and the Constitution - How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution (Paperback)
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How and why did Americans conceive a republic built on individual
liberty, in an era or oppressive monarchies? This book describes
the origins of the rights and liberties which the Constitution
protects, including their roots in the English Revolution and
republic. It also tells the story of revolutionary American
progress from British colonies to a new nation founded on the
world's first written Constitution. This book describes how
developments in England since Magna Carta had enabled liberty and
representative government to develop in England and in America. The
English replaced two kings in their revolutions of the seventeenth
century, and the author explains how those revolutions resulted in
enduring constitutional changes. This book shows that the charges
against George III in the Declaration of Independence mirrored the
charges against Charles I at the founding of the English republic.
Philips considers why the American colonies were partially
self-governing from their founding, and how the founding charters
of the colonies contained seeds of American rebellion in the 1760s
and 1770s. This book explains the gap between British and colonial
Americans' perceptions of their constitutional rights, and how that
gap led to British oppression and American rebellion. By means of
the Constitution, the Framers aimed to establish a federal,
national, and republican system of government which would protect
Americans' liberties. The author explores how the Framers'
experience of British colonial government, the American colonial
charters, the innovations in the first American constitutions (the
State constitutions), and the failure of the Confederation in the
revolutionary period, all influenced the Framers in drafting the
final Constitution.
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