Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial AmericaIn Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals how diverse constitutional thought and practice were at the time, and how colonial ambitions were advanced through cruelty toward indigenous peoples