The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution

by John Phillip Reid

"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226708969
• ISBN13: 9780226708966
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"