Building a Revolutionary State: The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)

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How does a well-liked uprising change into itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the day-to-day administration required to govern? Americans faced this question throughout the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed under the period’s disorder. Yet by the end of the war, Americans managed to rebuild their courts and legislatures, imbuing such institutions with an authority that was once widely respected. This remarkable transformation came about in unexpected ways. Howard Pashman here studies the surprising role played by property redistribution—seizing it from Loyalists and transferring it to supporters of independence—within the reconstruction of legal order throughout the Revolutionary War.

Building a Revolutionary State looks closely at one state, New York, to be mindful the broader question of how legal structures emerged from an insurgency.  By examining law as New Yorkers experienced it in day-to-day life throughout the war, Pashman reconstructs a world of revolutionary law that prevailed throughout The us’s transition to independence. In doing so, Pashman explores a central paradox of the revolutionary era:  aggressive enforcement of partisan property rules if truth be told had stabilizing effects that allowed insurgents to build legal institutions that enjoyed popular strengthen.  Tracing the transformation from revolutionary disorder to legal order, Building a New Revolutionary State gives us a radically fresh way to be mindful the emergence of new states.

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