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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...

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Autor principal: Stimson, Shannon C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1990.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Political Thought and Historical Problematics
  • 2. Historical Transformations and Legal Legacies
  • 3. Juries and American Revolutionary Jurisprudence
  • 4. Locating the 'Voice of the People'
  • 5. Law in the Context of Continuous Revolution
  • 6. The Politics of Judicial Space
  • 7. Government by Discussion: Continuing Debate over Judicial Space
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.