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America's founding charters : primary documents of Colonial and Revolutionary era governance
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America's founding charters : primary documents of Colonial and Revolutionary era governance

Author: Jon L Wakelyn
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jon L Wakelyn
ISBN: 0313331553 9780313331558 0313331561 9780313331565 031333157X 9780313331572 0313331545 9780313331541
OCLC Number: 71146254
Description: 3 v. (xvii, 983 p.) ; 26 cm.
Contents: v. 1. Origins, 1580s-1688 -- Ideas on governance and first charters -- Charters and essential governing documents -- Consolidation of colonies and resistance : dominion status, 1685-1689 -- v. 2. The colonial and provincial growth of American governance : developments and defense, 1689-1776. Governmental developments during the Eighteenth Century -- Essays on governance and defense of colonial government -- Plans for unity, divided colonies, and united independence -- v. 3. Governance in the confederation period, 1776-1787. The first state constitutions : debates, adoptions, and amendments -- The Articles of Confederation : proposed, debated, and ratified -- Continental Congress as the national government.
Responsibility: edited by Jon L. Wakelyn.
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