Jack P. Greene was born in 1931 in Lafayette, Indiana, and received his PhD from Duke University in 1956. Greene spent most his career as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University’s history department. In 1990-92, he was a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and he has been a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary, Oxford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Ecole des Haute Etudes en Science Sociale, University of Richmond, Michigan State University, and the Freie Universitat de Berlin, and has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others. Greene retired in 2005 and is currently an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
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製度史的經典。
評分從三個維度勾勒齣時人在憲法上正當化美國革命的理由:1英格蘭國王雖有管治殖民地的權力,但北美人認為按英國傳統形成的本地議會纔是立法機關,國王指派的總督和委員會不過起輔助及施政作用,且按英國傳統國王應顧及臣民呼聲;2光榮革命後英國國會逐漸成為國傢主權者及憲法來源、欲強製管理殖民地事務,但按習慣法英格蘭中央國會嚮不過問本地事務如徵稅、生産等,且殖民地成立之時國王尚為主權者,殖民者為國王臣民而非國會—立憲國王臣民,理當服庸主權者國王而非僅有英格蘭人組成的國會主權(與第一條有微妙的張力);3最重要的一點,英國嚮有多中心立法傳統,英格蘭國會尊重各領地本地立法機關對本地事務的立法,北美殖民地一百多年來已按照習慣法及習俗形成特殊的立法機關,國會欲將英格蘭憲法等同於英帝國憲法而約束殖民地,是違反習慣法和習俗。
評分製度史的經典。
評分從三個維度勾勒齣時人在憲法上正當化美國革命的理由:1英格蘭國王雖有管治殖民地的權力,但北美人認為按英國傳統形成的本地議會纔是立法機關,國王指派的總督和委員會不過起輔助及施政作用,且按英國傳統國王應顧及臣民呼聲;2光榮革命後英國國會逐漸成為國傢主權者及憲法來源、欲強製管理殖民地事務,但按習慣法英格蘭中央國會嚮不過問本地事務如徵稅、生産等,且殖民地成立之時國王尚為主權者,殖民者為國王臣民而非國會—立憲國王臣民,理當服庸主權者國王而非僅有英格蘭人組成的國會主權(與第一條有微妙的張力);3最重要的一點,英國嚮有多中心立法傳統,英格蘭國會尊重各領地本地立法機關對本地事務的立法,北美殖民地一百多年來已按照習慣法及習俗形成特殊的立法機關,國會欲將英格蘭憲法等同於英帝國憲法而約束殖民地,是違反習慣法和習俗。
評分從三個維度勾勒齣時人在憲法上正當化美國革命的理由:1英格蘭國王雖有管治殖民地的權力,但北美人認為按英國傳統形成的本地議會纔是立法機關,國王指派的總督和委員會不過起輔助及施政作用,且按英國傳統國王應顧及臣民呼聲;2光榮革命後英國國會逐漸成為國傢主權者及憲法來源、欲強製管理殖民地事務,但按習慣法英格蘭中央國會嚮不過問本地事務如徵稅、生産等,且殖民地成立之時國王尚為主權者,殖民者為國王臣民而非國會—立憲國王臣民,理當服庸主權者國王而非僅有英格蘭人組成的國會主權(與第一條有微妙的張力);3最重要的一點,英國嚮有多中心立法傳統,英格蘭國會尊重各領地本地立法機關對本地事務的立法,北美殖民地一百多年來已按照習慣法及習俗形成特殊的立法機關,國會欲將英格蘭憲法等同於英帝國憲法而約束殖民地,是違反習慣法和習俗。
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