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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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Auteur principal: Stimson, Shannon C. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1990.
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (239 pages).
ISBN:9781400861477