America's Founding Charters

ISBN: 9780313331541

出版社: Greenwood Pub Group

出版年: 2006-10

页数: 37

定价: $ 338.94

装帧: HRD

内容简介

This extensive work provides an in-depth look at 260 major documents, with commentary, pertaining to the structure, formation, and functioning of the political system in colonial and revolutionary America. Among the documents included are royal charters establishing colonial claims, sermons that question or bolster the established order, pamphlets, state constitutions, debates over the make-up of the Continental Congress and Articles of Confederation, and more. The documents include: charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, March 25, 1584; the New Atlantis, 1624; organization of the Government of Massachusetts Bay, April 30, 1629; articles of confederation of the United Colonies of New England, August 29, 1643; remonstrance of East Jersey, 1700; Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12, 1776; and "The Continentalist," Alexander Hamilton, August 1781-July 1782.