Law's imagined republic : popular politics and criminal justice in revolutionary America /

"Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilf, Steven Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
Temas:
1700-1799
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > History > 18th century.
Law > Language > History > 18th century.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Law > Language
Strafrecht
Diskurs
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Criminal law out-of-doors
  • "The language of law is a vulgar tongue"
  • Local justice, transatlantic justice
  • The problem of punishment in an age of revolution
  • The statute imagined.

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