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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1990.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400861477 |