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The problem and potential of piracy: legal changes and emerging ideas of colonial autonomy in the early modern British Atlantic, 1670-1730

机译:海盗行为的问题和潜力:1670-1730年早期的现代不列颠大西洋沿岸的法律变化和殖民自治的新思想

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This article focuses on British maritime law to discuss the challenge of transferring Admiralty law to Britain's Atlantic colonies, considered through the lens pirate trials and executions. Colonial governors in North America and the West Indies tolerated piracy during the seventeenth century to obtain goods barred from the restrictions imposed by the Navigation Acts. These deals were largely ignored, but the increasing piratical insults against the Crown and pressure from foreign competitors, such as Spain, forced British officials to crack down on piracy. Unfortunately, years of tolerating pirates had allowed these criminals to become too numerous for British officials to transport captured pirates back to England for trial and executions. As a result, by 1700 they had to establish their maritime legal ruling body, the Admiralty Court, throughout the American colonies under the jurisdiction of local governors. However, complex geographical challenges in the Caribbean and religiously influenced social laws in North America forced colonial governors to alter the English system to fit their needs and create autonomous legal networks. This article argues that the establishment and maintenance of British Admiralty law in the Atlantic colonies led to the development of early American ideas of autonomy.
机译:本文重点讨论英国海事法律,以讨论通过镜头海盗审判和处决考虑的将金钟法移交给英国大西洋殖民地所面临的挑战。北美和西印度群岛的殖民统治者在17世纪曾容忍海盗行为,以获取不受《航行法》所施加限制的商品。这些交易在很大程度上被忽略了,但是对王室的越来越多的侮辱和西班牙等外国竞争对手的压力迫使英国官员严厉打击海盗行为。不幸的是,多年来对海盗的宽容使这些罪犯变得太多,以至于英国官员无法将捕获的海盗运回英国进行审判和处决。结果,到1700年,他们不得不在整个美国殖民地中建立由当地州长管辖的海上法律裁决机构金钟法院。然而,加勒比海地区复杂的地理挑战和北美宗教上受社会影响的社会法律迫使殖民地州长改变英语系统以适应他们的需求并建立自治的法律网络。本文认为,在大西洋殖民地建立和维护英国金钟法导致了美国早期自治思想的发展。

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