The Transatlantic Constitution

“One of the more significant recent pieces of scholarship in this area . . . essential reading for all students of early America.” — Journal of American History   Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of thi