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Long before the Constitution was ever written, America was already governed. Before the Constitution is a rigorous and accessible exploration of the legal, moral and philosophical world that existed prior to 1787-the world that made the Constitution possible, Rather than beginning with the founding fathers alone, this book traces the deeper inheritance of law and order that shaped early American thought: inherited English common law, colonial charters, covenantal traditions, religious convictions and centuries-old assumptions about authority, liberty, and responsibility. This book reveals that the Constitution did not emerge in isolation, nor was it a sudden act of political invention. It was the culmination of long-held principles already tested in courts, churches, town halls and colonies. The rights later enumerated were not imagined into existence, they were recognized, refined and restrained by a society that already understood law as something older than government itself. Written for readers seeking clarity amid modern constitutional confusion, Before the Constitution examines: The legal traditions carried from England to the colonies The moral and religious assumptions underlying early governance The roll of characters, covenants and colonial law How authority was understood before centralized federal power Why the Constitution assumes more than it explains This is not a Polemic, nor a modern reinterpretation. It is a return to origins. By restoring historical context often ignored in contemporary debate, Before the Constitution offers readers a clearer understanding of what the Constitution was designed to preserve, and what it was never meant to replace. Essential reading for students of history, law, constitutional thought and anyone seeking to understand the foundations beneath the American experiment.

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