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Thomas Jefferson, legal history, and the art of recollection /
Through his discussion of Thomas Jefferson, historian Matthew Crow offers a new perspective on constitutional transformation in early American history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Epigraph ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction: ''in the course of human events. . .'' ; Jefferson in Pieces ; Jefferson's Histories ; Law and History ; Jefferson's Uses.
- 2 Jurisdiction and British Legal Memory in Colonial Virginia Contexts of Legal Knowledge ; Histories in Play ; Organizing Legal History ; Jefferson in Practice ; Conclusion ; 3 New-Modeling and Rewriting in Revolutionary Virginia ; Law, Empire, and Equity.
- New-Modeling and the Common Law Mind Modeling Constitutional Text ; Conclusion: Equitable Use ; 4 Labor, Language, and the Legal Subject of the Notes on the State of Virginia ; Usage, Propriety, and History ; The Jeffersonian Subject ; Language, History, and Empire ; Conclusion.
- 5 Governing the Usufruct of the Living Property, Constitutionalism, and Representation ; Commerce and Empire ; Commerce and Translation ; Jurisprudence, Empire, and Jurisdiction ; 6 The Discipline of Recollection ; Institutions of Assembly ; History in the Assembly.
- Scissors and Paste Spaces of Recollection ; Conclusion ; Index.