Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State: Volume Six, American Traditions and Innovation with Contemporary Import and Foreground, Book I: Foundations, (to Early 19th Century)Athenäum, 1983 - 488 halaman This first book of the sixth volume centers on the Revolutionary and Constitutional eras in early American history, while also carrying the story ahead into the early 19th century. How did the American founders adapt and utilize European thought in their political and legal ideas on sovereignty, state, and legislation? Because of the seismic impact of European thought (and classical traditions) on America's foremost founders, it should come as no surprise that some of the most basic documents in the emergent new Republic were significantly influenced by European writings. Subsequent studies will take up the same basic themes in American thought and events from the mid-19th century to the present period. |