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The American Revolution In the Law: Anglo-American Jurisprudence before John Marshall
Shannon C. Stimson
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Hardback. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 18000.
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 the judicial and jural power. In Stimson's book, which will interest both historians and theorists of law ... Read more
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 the judicial and jural power. In Stimson's book, which will interest both historians and theorists of law ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691633527
SKU
V9780691633527
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Reviews for The American Revolution In the Law: Anglo-American Jurisprudence before John Marshall
"A stimulating book and an authoritative one."
Political Studies
Political Studies