The American Revolution In The Law: Anglo-American Jurisprudence before John Marshall

by Shannon C. Stimson

Overview

This study of the political and legal thought of the American Revolution and founding period explores the differences in the perceptions of judicial and jural power that characterized the conditions of law in late 18th century America, as compared to her British counterparts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349100583
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	1st ed. 1990
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Part 1 Revolutions and conceptual change: political thought and historical problematics; historical transformations and legal legacies; juries and American revolutionary jurisprudence. Part 2 From judicial space to judicial review: locating the "voice of the people"; law in the context of continuous "revolution"; the politics of judicial space; the court, the constitution and continuing.