This book contributes to the increasing interest in John Adams and his political and legal thought by examining his work on the medieval British Empire. For Adams, the conflict with England was constitutional because there was no British Empire, only numerous territories including the American colonies not consolidated into a constitutional structure. Each had a unique relationship to the English. In two series of essays he rejected the Parliament’s claim to legislate for the in...
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Introduction: The Eighteenth Century and the Middle Ages.- 1 The Norman Yoke: Feudal Law.- 2 The Norman Yoke: Canon Law.- 3 Daniel Leonard and the Modern British Em...
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James Muldoon is Emeritus Professor of History at Rutgers University, USA, and Researcher-in-Residence at The John Carter Brown Library, USA.