The American Revolution In the Law : : Anglo-American Jurisprudence before John Marshall / / Shannon C. Stimson.
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, s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Revolutions and Conceptual Change
- 1. Political Thought and Historical Problematics
- 2. Historical Transformations and Legal Legacies
- 3. Juries and American Revolutionary Jurisprudence
- PART II: From Judicial Space to Judicial Review Four Perspectives on the Power of Judgment in American Politics
- 4. Locating the 'Voice of the People'
- 5. Law in the Context of Continuous Revolution
- 6. The Politics of Judicial Space
- 7. Government by Discussion: Continuing Debate over Judicial Space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index