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Wisconsin and the Shaping of American Law /
"State laws affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives--our safety, personal relationships, and business dealings--but receive less scholarly attention than federal laws and courts. [The author] looks at how state laws have evolved and shaped American history, through the lens of the histori...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The law that came before
- Law on the Frontier
- A Jacksonian jurisprudence
- Ropes of Sand : slavery and State Rights
- Imperia in Imperiis : striking a balance of power in the Industrial Age
- "Absolute common ground" : accommodating diversity in a growing State and Nation
- Crying out for Man's hand : law and nature in an Instrumentalist Age
- Breaking the Procrustean bed : The Progressive Era
- Great public needs : the New Deal and the rise of labor
- "Equal in all other respects" : accommodating diversity in the Twentieth Century
- Better right than quick : nationalizing trends in State Law, 1940-1980
- Law in the Age of Individualism.