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For the Colony in Virginea Britannia
Author | : William Strachey |
Publisher | : Charlottesville : Published for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities [by] University Press of Virginia |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Statute Law in Colonial Virginia
Author | : Warren M. Billings |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-02-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0813945658 |
Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia’s General Assembly revised the colony’s statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. In Statute Law in Colonial Virginia, Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the seven revisions of the corpus juris the General Assembly undertook. In so doing, he highlights the good, the corrupt, and the loathsome applications of broad legislative authority throughout the colonial era. Each revision was built on prior written law and embodies the members’ legal knowledge and statutory craftsmanship, revealing their use of an unbridled discretion to further the interests they represented. Statutes undergirded Virginia’s evolving legal culture, and by examining these revisals and their links, Billings casts light on the hybrid nature of Virginia statute law and its relation to English laws.
Constitutional History of Virginia
Author | : Brent Tarter |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2023-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820363340 |
This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one of the oldest and most complex. Virginia’s state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established in July 1619, making it the oldest current lawmaking body in North America. Brent Tarter’s Constitutional History of Virginia covers over three hundred years of Virginia’s legislative policy, from colony to statehood, revealing its political and legal backstory. From the very beginning in 1606, when James I chartered the Virginia Company to establish a commercial outpost on the Atlantic coast of North America, through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the fundamental constitutions of the colony and state of Virginia have evolved and changed as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural characteristics of Virginia changed. Elements of the colonial constitution influenced the character of the state’s first constitution in 1776, and changing relationships between the people and their government, as well as relationships between the state and federal governments, have influenced how the state’s constitution has evolved. Tarter explores that evolution and taps into its relevance to the people who have lived and still live in Virginia.
For God, King, and People
Author | : Alexander B. Haskell |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469618036 |
By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age rather than an era of early modern entrepreneurialism. These men did not merely settle Virginia; they and their London-based sponsors saw this first successful English venture in America as an exercise in divinely inspired and approved commonwealth creation. When the realities of Virginia complicated this humanist ideal, growing disillusionment and contention marked debates over the colony. Rather than just "selling" colonization to the realm, proponents instead needed to overcome profound and recurring doubts about whether God wanted English rule to cross the Atlantic and the process by which it was to happen. By contextualizing these debates within a late Renaissance phase in England, Haskell links increasing religious skepticism to the rise of decidedly secular conceptions of state power. Haskell offers a radical revision of accepted narratives of early modern state formation, locating it as an outcome, rather than as an antecedent, of colonial endeavor.
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World
Author | : Ken MacMillan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2006-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521870097 |
How did English notions of sovereignty, empire and law impact their methods of settlement in the Americas?
Jamestown and the Settlement of Virginia
Author | : Ruth Bjorklund |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502631385 |
The founding of the first permanent English colony in North America was challenged by starvation, disease, deteriorating relations with Native Americans, economic struggles, rebellion, and class struggle. Despite these monumental difficulties, the colony prospered and established a legislative assembly that was the first example of representative government in what is now the United States. This book uses the writings of those who went through these struggles to allow students to relive the experience.
Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607-1786
Author | : J. Bell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137327928 |
The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.
A Brave Vessel
Author | : Hobson Woodward |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2010-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143117521 |
"At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel Philbrick Merging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's greatest works. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail for the New World aboard the Sea Venture, only to wreck on the shores of Bermuda. Strachey's meticulous account of the tragedy, the castaways' time in Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown, remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Though Strachey had literary aspirations, only in the hands of another William would his tale make history as The Tempest-a fascinating connection across time and literature that Hobson Woodward brings vividly to life.