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In a defiant stance : the conditions of law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish comparison ; and the coming of the American Revolution /
The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[1977]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. In the Very Face of Government: The American Comparison
- 2. It Signifies Little Who Is Governor: The Locus of Law
- 3. Sourve from Whence the Clamors Flow: The Conditions of Law
- 4. Democracy Is Too Prevalent in America: The Civil Traverse Jury
- 5. Juries Lie Open to Management: The Uses of the Grand Jury
- 6. In Defiance of the Threats: The Criminal Traverse Jury
- 7. Unless Law Are Enforced: The Legitimacy of Whig Law
- 8. By Consent of the Council: The Import of Local Control
- 9. The Seeds of Anarchy: The Execution of Whig Law
- 10. The Same Leaven with the People: The Legal Mind of the American Whig
- 11. Disjointed and Independent of Each Other: The Conditions of Imperial Law
- 12. The Government They Have Set Up: The Emergence of Whig Government
- 13. The Oppression of Centuries: The Irish Comparison
- 14. A Most Dreadful Ruin: The Legal Mind of British-Ruled Ireland
- 15. To Effect a Revolution: The Execution of Imperial Law
- 16. Enforced by Mobs: The Rule of Law.