The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism

Authors

David N. Mayer, Capital University

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

Scholars-at first historians and political scientists, and more recently legal scholars-who have become more enamored with the civic republican implications of early American thought have overlooked the "whig" basis of that thought. As a result, much recent scholarship about early American constitutionalism has been seriously misguided.

Recommended Citation

David N. Mayer, The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism, 70 Wash. U. L. Q. 131 (1992).
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