Family Politics versus Constitutional Principles
The New York Assembly Elections of 1768 and 1769
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4222068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Champagne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57 |
| Publication date | 1963-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1921355 |
| OpenAlex | W2332670781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
JT has been more than fifty years since Carl Lotus Becker wrote The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 17601776, and over the years his work has been duly recognized by historians as the only worth-while study of the tumultuous prerevolutionary era in New York. Many things besides scholarship commended Becker's research and writing. He revealed a felicitous style that was to reach full bloom in a later work, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, but more important, this student of Frederick Jackson Turner, like the master, tempted historians of his own and later generations with an interpretation that can only be described as brilliant.' Becker concluded that the history of the American Revolution in New York was basically twofold in structure: first, a contest over home rule, and issuing from that, also a contest over who was to rule at home. The issue of home rule was agitated and promoted by the provincial struggle against the imperial policies of Great Britain; on the other hand, the succession of imperial crises provided an opportunity for the common freeholder and the unfranchised mechanic and artisan to challenge the political predominance of the land-owning and merchant aristocracy, and thus posed the question of who should rule at home. Within the compass of his study, Becker traced both propositions to satisfactory conclusions. Independence became the solution to the first question, but the answer to the second was left hanging in mid-air because, as Becker stated, the commencement of war hushed up internal dissentions between conservatives and radicals, between the privileged and unprivileged. How
Genealogy · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1964 - 2020 (57) |
| Highly cited | No |