Remaking custom : law and identity in the early American Republic / / Ellen Holmes Pearson.
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| Superior document: | Jeffersonian America |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jeffersonian America.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 251 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- America's common law : custom, choice, and history lessons
- American constitutions and American character
- Property acquisition and inheritance
- The question of slavery in the New Republic
- Public lands, expansion, and the Native Americans
- Custom, the written law, and American legal treatises
- Conclusion.