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Contents

12.1 Revolution as a Social Instrument of Political Change............................................................ 322

12.1.1 The Example of Prussian Social Inflexibility............................................................

322

12.1.2 The English Case: The Gradual Transformation

of a Political Constitution..................................................................................................................... 323

12.1.3 Rupture as an Instrument of Change: The American

and French Revolutions....................................................................................................................... 324

12.2 From the War of Independence to the American Revolution................................................... 325

12.3 The First Europeans in the Americas....................................................................................... 326

12.3.1 The Spanish and the Portuguese............................................................................... 326

12.3.2 French and Dutch Expeditions.................................................................................. 326

12.3.3 The Origins of the English Presence in America...................................................... 327

12.4 Spanish vs. English Colonization............................................................................................. 328

12.4.1 The “Centralized” Model of Spanish Colonization................................................... 328

12.4.2 The English Model: “Decentralized” Colonization................................................... 330

12.5 The Development of English Colonization............................................................................. 331

12.5.1 The First English Colony: Virginia (1607)...............................................................

331

12.5.2 Religious Colonization............................................................................................. 333

12.5.3 The Proprietary Colonies.......................................................................................... 336

12.5.4 New Colonies After the Restoration (1660).............................................................. 338

12.5.5 Political Variety and Legal Autonomy of the English Colonies

in America............................................................................................................................................ 341

12.6 The Colonists and the British Crown................................................................................. 343

12.6.1 The Colonial Explosion........................................................................................ 343

12.6.2 The First American Intervention of the English Crown: The War Against

France................................................................................................................................................... 344

12.6.3 The Price of Victory.................................................................................................. 345

12.6.4 The Fiscal Origins of the Rebellion......................................................................... 345

12.6.5 The First Continental Congress in Philadelphia (1774)............................................ 347

12.7 The War of Independence (1776-1781)................................................................................... 347

12.7.1 The First Armed Clash: The “Battle” at Lexington (April 19, 1775)................ 347

12.7.2 The Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence.... 348

12.7.3 The Course of the Conflict........................................................................................ 348

12.7.4 The Peace of Versailles and the Recognition of a New Nation: The United

States of America................................................................................................................................. 350

12.8 The West’s First Liberal State................................................................................................. 351

12.8.1 From Locke to Jefferson............................................................................................ 351

12.8.2 The American Revolution as a Rupture with the Old Order..................................... 352

12.8.3 A Precarious “Union”: The Articles of Confederation............................................ 355

References........................................................................................................................................... 358

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Source: Aguilera-Barchet Bruno. A History of Western Public Law. Between Nation and State. Springer,2015. — 788 p.. 2015

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