In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in N…
Integration durch Verfassung
Verfassungen stellen politische Ordnung auf Dauer - und dies in einem doppelten Sinn: Als Spielregelwerk des politischen Systems enthalten sie Institutionen und Verfahren, die den politischen Prozess organisieren und regulieren; als Rechtsnorm machen sie die grundlegenden Formen…
Integration durch Verfassung
The founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, Eric Nelson argues, not the Crown. As a result of their labors, the 1787 Constitution assigned its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were k…