Hybrid constitutions
Subtitle: challenging legacies of law, privilege, and culture in colonial America
By: Vicki Hsueh.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822346180; 9780822346326
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States -- States; Constitutional history -- Great Britain -- Colonies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hybrid constitutionalisms : unsettling the empire of uniformity; title: "Not repugnant or contrary" : law, discretion, and colonial founding; title: Giving orders : theory and practice in the fundamental constitutions of Carolina; title: Under negotiation : treaty power and hybrid constitutionalism in Pennsylvania; title: Negotiating culture : plurality and power in hybrid constitutionalism.