Constituting Empire
New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10036085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R H Brown (0000-0003-2848-5671) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 846-847 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4486438 |
| OpenAlex | W2321659887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
This ambitious, densely packed, and challenging book is intelligent and informative as well as speculative and problematical. A New York University professor of law, Daniel J. Hulsebosch has a strong command of legal history but is less expert about major episodes in American political and constitutional history. His book argues a theme of New York's constitutional transformation within a context of empire-building from colonial beginnings to the early nineteenth century. He tells a story of New York provincials before the Revolution selectively drawing on a diverse inheritance of British legal and constitutional sources to defend jury trial, legislative assemblies, and independent judges against imperial centralizing efforts. Accelerated by the run-up to the Revolution, New York's constitutionalism took a long stride in the hothouse settings of state and federal constitution-making, legal cases such as Rutgers v. Waddington (1784), and Federalist/Antifederalist debates. Finally, in the postwar decades New York's (and the nation's) constitutionalism was shaped by jurists, lawyers, and commentators into a “new genre of American constitutional law” characterized by a coherence, explicitness, and restrictiveness that contrasted sharply with its amorphous, plastic, and variegated English sources (p. 13)
Constitution · Constitutionalism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Empire · Legal history · Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |