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HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and Political
Traditions (Ash)
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English Politics and Political Traditions
Americans often imagine that their political institutions and principles
are unique and unheralded; yet, many of them might be traced back to
the heritage of England at the time the colonies were first formed, and
over the course of the colonial period as English political institutions
evolved. Identify the ways that English politics and political traditions
influenced the political and legal institutions of colonial America.
What aspects of the English political heritage did the colonists claim for
themselves? How did English institutions and principles evolve in the
colonies? How and why had English and American conceptions of their
shared political heritage diverged so sharply by the middle of the 1700s?
What constitutional disagreements brought about the American
Revolution?
In responding to the above questions, draw from the material in one of
the following videos:
In the beginning Larry Kramer: American legal history: Colonial era to
1800 Liberty! Episode 1 – The reluctant revolutionaries (1763-1774)