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Author: Claudia L. Bushman
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9780874133097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of the proceedings of Delaware's lower house completes the publication of Delaware's legislative papers, a project envisioned by Delawareans more than one hundred years ago.
Author: Justin Moeller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1351751123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Colonial America, democracy was centered in provincial assemblies and based on the collection of neighbors whose freehold ownership made them permanent stakeholders in the community. The removal of the property qualification for voting in the United States occurred over three-quarters of a century and was among the more important events in the history of democratization, functioning to shift voting from a corporate privilege toward a human right. Moving beyond the standard histories of property standard histories of property qualification removal, Justin Moeller and Ronald F. King adopt the theories and methods of social science to discover underlying patterns and regularities, attempting a more systematic understanding of subject. While no historical event has a single cause, party consolidation and party competition provided a necessary mechanism, making background factors politically relevant. No change in franchise rules could occur without the explicit consent of incumbent politicians, always sensitive to the anticipated impact. Moeller and King argue that political parties acted strategically, accepting or rejecting removal of the property qualification as a means of advancing their electoral position. The authors identify four different variants of the strategic calculation variable, significantly helping to explain both the temporal differences across states and the pattern of contestation with each state individually.
Author: Jane E. Calvert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0197541690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Early November on the Eastern Shore of Maryland is a fine time of year. The breezes off the Chesapeake Bay are sufficiently cool to turn the leaves vibrant but still mild enough to give hope for an Indian summer. In the 18th century fishermen could catch blue crab for a few more weeks; enslaved people, indentured servants, and farmers sowed the winter wheat; and women poured candles to see them through the impending winter. Although planters had long grown tobacco here, by 1732, the year John Dickinson was born, grains were more profitable as tobacco prices stagnated. Public tobacco houses still dotted the landscape, and the acrid smell of the drying weed seeped from black barns and mingled with the pungent scent of the Bay"--
Author: William J. Bulman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1108842496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the emergence of majority rule in the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its Atlantic colonies over two centuries.
Author: Christian G. Fritz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-10-29
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1139467174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.
Author: Raymond D. Irwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-03-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0313074658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995, this work covers scholarship on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This annotated bibliography surveys over 1,000 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogs, and reference works published between 1986 and 1990. In thirty-two thematic sections, the book covers such topics as colonization, rural life and agriculture, and religion. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial, colonial, and early Republican America.
Author: William Kloss
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 518
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maurice Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1317272781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement, their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition, religious history, Atlantic studies and American social and political history.
Author: Scott Douglas Gerber
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011-05-05
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0199765871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title provides a comprehensive critical analysis of the origins of judicial independence in the United States. The book examines the political theory of an independent judiciary and chronicles how each of the original 13 states and their colonial antecedents treated their respective judiciaries.
Author: Woody Holton
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-10-02
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780809080618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the original intent behind the writing of the Constitution and how it was shaped by the reactions, occasionally violent ones, of citizens to include a protection of civil liberties and the freedom of the people.
