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"No other nation's creation, both politically and socially, owes such a debt to lawyers as the United States of America. This book traces the story of that creation through the human lives of those who played important parts in it: amongst others, of English lawyers who established the for...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arlidge, Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; London : Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ; Hart Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
Lawyers > United States > History.
Practice of law > United States > History.
Avocats > États-Unis > Biographies.
Avocats > États-Unis > Histoire.
Droit > Pratique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Constitutional & administrative law.
Legal history.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
Lawyers
Practice of law
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Walter Raleigh
  • ch. 2. Maps and Explorers: Richard Hakluyt
  • ch. 3. The Virginia Company: John Popham
  • ch. 4. Democracy: Edwyn Sandys
  • ch. 5. Religion and Liberty: Nathaniel Ward
  • ch. 6. Toleration: Cecil Calvert and William Penn
  • ch. 7. Representation: James Otis Junior
  • ch. 8. The Common Law: William Blackstone
  • ch. 9. Penman of the Revolution: John Dickinson
  • ch. 10. Revolution: John Adams
  • ch. 11. Independence: Thomas Jefferson
  • ch. 12. Constitution: John Rutledge
  • ch. 13. Bill of Rights: Roger Sherman and James Madison
  • ch. 14. Nationhood: Alexander Hamilton
  • ch. 15. Consolidation: John Marshall
  • ch. 16. Slavery Abolished: Abraham Lincoln
  • ch. 17. The World Stage: Woodrow Wilson
  • ch. 18. Legal Dynamism: Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior and Louis Brandeis
  • ch. 19. Social Intervention: Earl Warren
  • ch. 20. The President Under the Law: Archibald Cox and Richard Nixon
  • ch. 21. The Glass Ceiling: Sandra O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • ch. 22. Epilogue: Barack Obama
  • Appendix : First fourteen amendments to the United States Constitution.

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