A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty
- ISBN-10
- 0700627812
- ISBN-13
- 9780700627813
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- American Political Thought
- Authors
- Peter Augustine Lawler, Richard M. Reinsch II
Description
The written US Constitution of 1787 has to be understood by the unwritten constitution, which includes the common law heritage, the colonists' practice of self-government, religious pluralism, the colonies as separate and then unified political actors in war, largely democratic emigration patterns, and colonial resistance to and gained independence from an empire that had abused historic common law rights and its own tradition of limited government.
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