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The American Revolution in the law : Anglo-American jurisprudence before John Marshall /
In 1773 John Adams observed that one source of tension in the debate between England and the colonies could be traced to the different conceptions each side had of the terms ""legally"" and ""constitutionally""--Different conceptions that were, as Shannon Stim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1773 John Adams observed that one source of tension in the debate between England and the colonies could be traced to the different conceptions each side had of the terms ""legally"" and ""constitutionally""--Different conceptions that were, as Shannon Stimson here demonstrates, symptomatic of deeper jurisprudential, political, and even epistemological differences between the two governmental outlooks. This study of the political and legal thought of the American revolution and founding period explores the differences between late eighteenth-century British and American perceptions of th |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400861477 1400861470 069160438X 9780691604381 0691078742 9780691078748 |