A Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq


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A Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq., Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol, and Agent for the Colony of New York, &C


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Excerpt from A Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq., Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol, and Agent for the Colony of New York, &C: In Answer to His Printed Speech, Said to Be Spoken in the House of Commons, on the Twenty-Second of March, 1775 Sources, - Of Defcent, Of Form of Govern ment, of Religion in the Northern Provinces, 'f ofmanners in the Southern, of Education, of the Remotenefs of Situation from the firfi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Constitutional History of the American Revolution V. 4; Authority of Law


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This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.










Josiah Tucker, Economist


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Constitutional History of the American Revolution


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Brilliantly executed....Reid's central argument is reserved for his contentions about how the American Revolution occurred within the British constitutional framework. Crucial is his assertion that the eighteenth-century British constitution itself was a vital crossroad between the old constitution of 'customary powers, with rights secured as property' and the newer constitution 'of sovereign command and of arbitrary parliamentary supremacy.' The conflict between the two was profound and ultimately irreconcilable as the Americans, with occasional misgivings and uncertainties, sustained the old and Parliament lurched toward the new...This book (has) a compelling intellectual force that deserves the closest scrutiny.' -George M. Curtis III, American Historical Review







American Revolutionary War Pamphlets in The Newberry Library (1922)


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In 2012 the Newberry library celebrated its 125th Anniversary. This book is a list of the American Revolutionary War pamphlets contained within the library (as of 1922).