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Autore: | Pole J. R (Jack Richon) |
Titolo: | Contract & consent : representation and the jury in Anglo-American legal history / / J.R. Pole |
Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina: | 349.42 |
Soggetto topico: | Law - England - History |
Law - United States - History | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Having established the basis of Anglo-American legal history in contract and common law in part one, in the second half of the volume Pole explores various constitutional and legal themes, from bicameralism in Britain and America and the role of the Constitution in the making of American nationality to the performance of representative institutions in the century following the American Revolution. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Contract and consent |
Titolo autorizzato: | Contract & consent |
ISBN: | 0-8139-2892-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825952603321 |
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