The Complete American Constitutionalism, Volume One Introduction and The Colonial Era The Complete American Constitutionalism Series

The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience. It provides the analysis, resources, and materials both domestic and foreign readers must understand with regards to the practice of constitutionalism in the United States. This first volume of a projected eight volume set is entitled: Introduction and The Colonial Era. Here the authors provide the building blocks for constitutional analysis with an in-depth exploration of the constitutional conflicts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that formed the overall American constitutional experience. This is the first collection of materials that focuses on the crucial constitutional documents and debates that structured American constitutional understandings at the time of the American Revolution. It details the roots of the common law rights that Americans demanded be respected and the different interpretations of the English constitutional experience that increasingly divided Members of Parliament from American Revolutionaries.

Howard Gillman is Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, History, and Law at the University of California, Irvine. . He has chaired that section and been honored by it for exceptional service and mentoring. Mark A. Graber is the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism at the University of Marylands Francis King Carey School of Law. Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and is currently director of graduate studies in the Department of Politics.