American Constitutional Tradition

Closer examination of foundational, revolutionary documents, and of the colonial legislation enacted on the basis of those foundational documents, reveals an American tradition of constitutionalism that the Revolutionaries were able to draw upon when fashioning their constitutions for the newly independent states and for the federal government.

H. Lowell Brown is an attorney and historian.

Part IConstitutionalism in Colonial America, 1578 To 1775 Foreword Chapter 1The Enterprise Colony of Virginia Chapter 2The Covenant Colonies of New England Chapter 3The Proprietary Colonies of The Mid-Atlantic Chapter 4The Emergence of the American Constitutional Tradition in the Age of the Imperium Part IIRevolutionary Constitutionalism Chapter 5The Quest for Federal Union Chapter 6The Revolutionary State Constitutions Chapter 7The American Constitutional Tradition in The Revolutionary Era Bibliography