Where the law comes from : the courts and the making of society -- John Slade's other harvest : common law, contract, and the American republic -- Sedition and the jury in London and New York -- American independence and the crisis of sovereignty -- Inferences and continuities -- Some problems of a colonial attorney general in a multicultural society -- Bicameralism and republican government in the British American colonies and in the United States -- The individual, the region, the nation : where three roads meet -- Nation-making and the American constitutional process -- The performance of representative institutions, 1776-1876 : ideology, estates, and interests. |