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PressChicago and London  \nJohn Phillip Reid is professor oflaw at the New York University School of Law.Hehas published extensively on legal and constitutional history,including the multi-volumeConstitutionalHistoryoftheAmerican Revolution,ofwhich twovolumes—The Authority of Rights(1986)and The Authorityto Tax(1987)—have appeared.  \nThe University of Chicago Press,Chicago6o637The University of Chicago Press,Ltd.,London◎1988 by The University of ChicagoAll rights reserved.Published 1g88Printedin the United States of America  \n97969594939291908g8854321  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nReid,John Phillip.  \nThe concept ofliberty in the age of theAmerican Revolution.  \nBibliography:p.163.Includes index.  \n1.United States—Constitutional history.  \n2.Rule of Law—United States—History.3.Liberty—History.I.Title.KF₄541.R451988323·44'0987-14971ISBN o-226-708g6-9  \nfor the  \nReverend JosephT.Durkin,S.J.of Georgetown  \nIntroduction  \n1 AWord We KnowA Word to LoveThe Britishness of Liberty  \n2 The Importance of Liberty  \nThe Motivation of Liberty  \n3 Sources of Liberty  \nOwnership of LibertyNaturalism of LibertyThe Extremes of LibertyUnnaturalness of Liberty  \n4 The Bane of Liberty  \nThe Darker Side of LibertyThe Bondage of LicentiousnessLicentiousness and Revolution  \n5 The Opposite of Liberty  \nEnglish BackgroundsBritish ContemporariesAnalogy of Chattel Slavery  \n6 The Concept of Slavery  \nThe Meaning of SlaveryThe Blessings of LibertyThe Motivation of Slavery  \n7 The Antithesis ofLiberty  \nLiberty and Arbitrary PowerArbitrary Powerand Revolution  \n343538  \n41454748  \n555657  \n1  \n11  \n13  \n15  \n18  \n19  \n22  \n23  \n25  \n27  \n29  \n32  \n32  \n39  \n50  \n52  \n8 The Lawfulness of Liberty  \n60  \nThe Particularities of LawThe Governanee of Law  \n62  \n65  \n9 The Security of Liberty  \n68  \nThe Property of SeeurityThe Liberty of Property  \n70  \n71  \n10 The Constitutionality of Liberty  \n74  \nThe Constitutional Frames of LibertyThe Balanee of LibertyThe Liberty of ConsentThe Constitution of Liberty  \n76  \n77  \n79  \n82  \n11 Liberty and the Revolution  \n84858788  \nSecurity and the RevolutionTaxation and the RevolutionConsent and Revolution  \n12 Slavery and the Revolution  \n91  \nSlavery and Parliamentary Supremaey  \n94  \n13 The Rhetoric of Liberty98The Ministerial View of Liberty100Liberty and Empire102The Empire of Liberty105  \n14 The Definition of Liberty108The Equality of Liberty109The Limits of Liberty113Conclusion116  \nAcknowledgmentsNotesShort TitlesIndex  \n123  \n125  \n163  \n217  \n# Introduction\n\nLiberty was the most cherished right posscssed by English-speak-ing people in the eighteenth century.It was both an ideal for theguidance of governors and a standard with which to measure theconstitutionality of government;both a cause of the AmericanRevolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Consti-tution;both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason re-publican common lawyers continued to study the law of England.  \nThat most treasured right,liberty in the age of the AmericanRevolution,is the subject of this study,and it is important at theoutset torecognizetheboundaries ofourquest.It will not dotolookforquestions that are not asked oranswers that are not sought.Thisis not a constitutional history of the American Revolution.It isconcernedwith theconcept of \"liberty,\"not with the constitutionalissues that led to rebellion from Great Britain.In other words,thisstudydoes not considertheAmerican defenseofsuch constitutionalrights as the right to jury trial,the right of taxation by consent,oreven thoserights that the eighteenth-centurylegal mind associatedmost closely with the concept of liberty:the right to property,theright to security,and the right to isonomy (in the eighteenthcentury,the equality of political rights).¹Rather,if this study weregivenageneric description it would not be 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