The transatlantic constitution : colonial legal culture and the empire / Mary Sarah Bilder.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Constitutional history.

Constitutional history -- United States.

Constitutional law.

The transatlantic constitution and the colonial world

1. The transatlantic legal world: 1. Legal practitioners and legal literates

2. The laws of England

3. The laws of Rhode Island

2. Transatlantic legal practice

4. The transatlantic appeal

5. Women, family, property

6. Personnel and practices

3. Visions of the transatlantic constitution: 7. Religious establishment and orthodoxy

8. Commerce and currency

9. The transatlantic constitution and the nation.

Includes index.

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xiii, 291 p.