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Heretics in the temple : Americans who reject the Nation's legal faith /

Americans seem increasingly disenchanted with their legal system. In the wake of several high-profile trials, America's faith in legal authority appears profoundly shaken. And yet, as David Ray Papke shows in this dramatic and erudite tour of American history, many Americans have challenged and...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Papke, David Ray, 1947-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, ©1998.
Collection:Critical America.
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Résumé:Americans seem increasingly disenchanted with their legal system. In the wake of several high-profile trials, America's faith in legal authority appears profoundly shaken. And yet, as David Ray Papke shows in this dramatic and erudite tour of American history, many Americans have challenged and often rejected the rule of law since the earliest days of the country's founding. Papke traces the lineage of such legal heretics from nineteenth-century activists William Lloyd Garrison and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, through Eugene Debs, and up to more recent radicals, such as the Black Panther Party, anti-abortionists, and militia members. A tradition of American legal heresy clearly emerges--linked together by a body of shared references, idols, and commitments--that problematizes the American belief in legal neutrality and highlights the historical conflicts between law and justice. Questioning the legal faith both peculiar and essential to American mythology, this alternative tradition is in itself an overlooked feature of American history and culture.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.
ISBN:058500255X
9780585002552
9780814766323
0814766323
9780814767900
0814767907