Daniel J Hulsebosch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J Hulsebosch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hulsebosch |
| SIGNATURE | HULSEBOSCH D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conceiving Confiscation in the American Revolution
The Fulfillment Revisited
Taking a cue from Bernard Bailyn's description of the constitutional debate as “the ideological fulfillment of the Revolution,” this essay analyzes the Constitution's contribution to a level of governance often slighted in histories focusing on the states and the federal government: the relationship of the United States to the other nations in the Atlantic world
Mary Sarah Bilder. Madison’s Hand
It has been a long time since historians and legal scholars referred to James Madison as “the father of the Constitution” without the distancing quotation marks. Yet they continue to place him at the center of the thoughts and action in the summer of 1787. One reason is that Madison has long been viewed as the most prepared and creative delegate at the Constitutional Convention. Another is that his Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention p…
Exile, Choice, and Loyalism
Taking a cue from Bernadette Atuahene's concept of “dignity takings” and her insight that government expropriation inflicts more than economic injury, this essay analyzes how American revolutionaries defined political membership, penalized and expropriated British loyalists, and then allowed some to join the American polity in the decade after the Revolution. Many recovered their property, professions, and legal privileges. However, because most …
Constitution-making in the Shadow of Empire
The newly multinational American Journal of Legal History is a healthy sign of the field’s recent expansion. To help make sure that comprehension is not traded off for comprehensiveness, legal historians might renew their attention to interpretive frames and methods of undertaking projects. This essay offers two tentative suggestions. One concerns a framework for guiding research about the history of governance. The key phrase here is constitutio…
The Plural Prerogative
The Declaration's Domestic International Effects
IN his insightful study of what he calls declaration of interdepen dence (30), David Armitage suggests that the effective date of U.S. independence might be 1778, when France signed a treaty recogniz ing and agreeing to aid the revolutionaries, or even 1783, when Britain conceded (85) independence in the Treaty of Paris. The date matters. In raising this issue, Armitage reminds us that the American Revolution was a drama with many acts that could…
Rights, States, and Empires
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Nothing But Liberty
George Van Cleve places Somerset's Case squarely in the middle of Britain's imperial history. It belongs there. After clarifying the “narrow” holding in the case—that Charles Stewart could not forcibly remove James Somerset from England—Van Cleve argues that Chief Justice Mansfield and his Court of King's Bench “creat[ed] a new legal framework for slavery” and “did so quite knowingly at the price of undercutting the legal, economic and moral basi…
The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire
One of the great, unrecognized ironies in Anglo-American constitutional history is that Sir Edward Coke, the seventeenth-century mythologist of the “ancient constitution” and the English jurist most celebrated in early America, did not believe that subjects enjoyed the common law and many related rights of Englishmen while overseas. “The common law,” Coke declared in Parliament in 1628, “meddles with nothing that is done beyond the seas.” The anc…
Imperia in Imperio
At least once during his tenure, the royal governor of colonial New York received a list of questions from London. The Board of Trade, which recommended colonial policy to the king's Privy Council, sought information about the province's geography, population, trade, and legal regime. This last question often came first: “What is the constitution of the Government?” The responses, from the first British governor in 1669 to the last before the Rev…
The Constitution in the Glass Case and Constitutions in Action
Bruce Mann's irreverent schoolmate would have made a good historian. Unlike the hapless docent, the student (whatever his intent) grasped that a word's various meanings, now divided, might once have been united. The word constitution, for example, was born in obfuscation—and this ambiguity enabled it to become a powerful analytical tool in the early modern period. In fact, the political meaning of constitution derived from the word's physiologica…
The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire
One of the great, unrecognized ironies in Anglo-American constitutional history is that Sir Edward Coke, the seventeenth-century mythologist of the “ancient constitution” and the English jurist most celebrated in early America, did not believe that subjects enjoyed the common law and many related rights of Englishmen while overseas. “The common law,” Coke declared in Parliament in 1628, “meddles with nothing that is done beyond the seas.” The anc…
Nothing But Liberty
George Van Cleve places Somerset's Case squarely in the middle of Britain's imperial history. It belongs there. After clarifying the “narrow” holding in the case—that Charles Stewart could not forcibly remove James Somerset from England—Van Cleve argues that Chief Justice Mansfield and his Court of King's Bench “creat[ed] a new legal framework for slavery” and “did so quite knowingly at the price of undercutting the legal, economic and moral basi…
Imperia in Imperio
At least once during his tenure, the royal governor of colonial New York received a list of questions from London. The Board of Trade, which recommended colonial policy to the king's Privy Council, sought information about the province's geography, population, trade, and legal regime. This last question often came first: “What is the constitution of the Government?” The responses, from the first British governor in 1669 to the last before the Rev…
The Plural Prerogative
Imperia in Imperio
At least once during his tenure, the royal governor of colonial New York received a list of questions from London. The Board of Trade, which recommended colonial policy to the king's Privy Council, sought information about the province's geography, population, trade, and legal regime. This last question often came first: “What is the constitution of the Government?” The responses, from the first British governor in 1669 to the last before the Rev…
The Constitution in the Glass Case and Constitutions in Action
Bruce Mann's irreverent schoolmate would have made a good historian. Unlike the hapless docent, the student (whatever his intent) grasped that a word's various meanings, now divided, might once have been united. The word constitution, for example, was born in obfuscation—and this ambiguity enabled it to become a powerful analytical tool in the early modern period. In fact, the political meaning of constitution derived from the word's physiologica…
The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire
One of the great, unrecognized ironies in Anglo-American constitutional history is that Sir Edward Coke, the seventeenth-century mythologist of the “ancient constitution” and the English jurist most celebrated in early America, did not believe that subjects enjoyed the common law and many related rights of Englishmen while overseas. “The common law,” Coke declared in Parliament in 1628, “meddles with nothing that is done beyond the seas.” The anc…
Nothing But Liberty
George Van Cleve places Somerset's Case squarely in the middle of Britain's imperial history. It belongs there. After clarifying the “narrow” holding in the case—that Charles Stewart could not forcibly remove James Somerset from England—Van Cleve argues that Chief Justice Mansfield and his Court of King's Bench “creat[ed] a new legal framework for slavery” and “did so quite knowingly at the price of undercutting the legal, economic and moral basi…
The Declaration's Domestic International Effects
IN his insightful study of what he calls declaration of interdepen dence (30), David Armitage suggests that the effective date of U.S. independence might be 1778, when France signed a treaty recogniz ing and agreeing to aid the revolutionaries, or even 1783, when Britain conceded (85) independence in the Treaty of Paris. The date matters. In raising this issue, Armitage reminds us that the American Revolution was a drama with many acts that could…
Rights, States, and Empires
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
The Plural Prerogative
Exile, Choice, and Loyalism
Taking a cue from Bernadette Atuahene's concept of “dignity takings” and her insight that government expropriation inflicts more than economic injury, this essay analyzes how American revolutionaries defined political membership, penalized and expropriated British loyalists, and then allowed some to join the American polity in the decade after the Revolution. Many recovered their property, professions, and legal privileges. However, because most …
Constitution-making in the Shadow of Empire
The newly multinational American Journal of Legal History is a healthy sign of the field’s recent expansion. To help make sure that comprehension is not traded off for comprehensiveness, legal historians might renew their attention to interpretive frames and methods of undertaking projects. This essay offers two tentative suggestions. One concerns a framework for guiding research about the history of governance. The key phrase here is constitutio…
The Fulfillment Revisited
Taking a cue from Bernard Bailyn's description of the constitutional debate as “the ideological fulfillment of the Revolution,” this essay analyzes the Constitution's contribution to a level of governance often slighted in histories focusing on the states and the federal government: the relationship of the United States to the other nations in the Atlantic world
Mary Sarah Bilder. Madison’s Hand
It has been a long time since historians and legal scholars referred to James Madison as “the father of the Constitution” without the distancing quotation marks. Yet they continue to place him at the center of the thoughts and action in the summer of 1787. One reason is that Madison has long been viewed as the most prepared and creative delegate at the Constitutional Convention. Another is that his Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention p…
Conceiving Confiscation in the American Revolution
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