Between Authority and Liberty
Subtitle: State Constitution-making in Revolutionary America
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780807847978
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Constitution: government & the state; History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; History: American; History; Politics / Current Events; USA; Constitutions; History & Theory - General; United States - Revolutionary War; American Revolution; American political thought; thirteen original states; American science of politics; Confederation era; Gordon Wood; broadened suffrage; frequent elections; History-United States - Revolutionary War; Political Science / Constitutions; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-Constitutions; Revolution, 1775-1783; United states
First sentence: On May 10 and 15, 1776, the Continental Congress ordered the suppression of "the exercise of every kind of authority under the ... crown" and urged that "all the powers of government, [be] exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies.