The Transatlantic Constitution

Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire

Mary Sarah Bilder

  • 2005 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association

Acknowledgments

A Note on Legal Terms

Introduction: The Transatlantic Constitution and the Colonial World

Part I. The Transatlantic Legal World

1. Legal Practitioners and Legal Literates

2. The Laws of England

3. The Laws of Rhode Island

Part II. Transatlantic Legal Practice

4. The Transatlantic Appeal

5. Women, Family, Property

6. Personnel and Practices

Part III. Visions of the Transatlantic Constitution

7. Religious Establishment and Orthodoxy

8. Commerce and Currency

9. The Transatlantic Constitution and the Nation

Notes

Index

  • Cover: The Transatlantic Constitution
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Suzanne Camarata

Mary Sarah Bilder is Professor of Law, Boston College Law School.