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The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism

Author: David N. Mayer (Capital University)

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.

Keywords: Constitutional history -- United States

How to Cite: Mayer, D. (1992) “The English Radical Whig Origins of American Constitutionalism”, Washington University Law Review. 70(1).