Download or read book Law and Authority in Colonial America Selected Essays Edited by George Athan Billias written by George Athan BILLIAS and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Authority in Colonial America written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Authority in Colonial America written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Essays written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and authority in colonial American selected essays written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Essays Law and Authority in Colonial America written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Authority in Colonial America written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Essays Law and Authority in Colonial America written by George Athan Billias and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Religion in Colonial America written by Scott Douglas Gerber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on law, this book offers new insights into the history of religious liberty in colonial America.
Download or read book From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers written by Allan Kulikoff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.
Download or read book Law Gender and Injustice written by Joan Hoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal status of women has changed more rapidly in the last 20 years than in the previous 200, Hoff argues, but these changes have become less important over time. The American power structure has relinquished rights to women and minorities only after these rights have been diminished by a white-male-dominated legal system. She calls for a reinterpretation of legal texts to create a feminist jurisprudence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century written by Thad W. Tate and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century Chesapeake involved the area of the colonies of Virginia and Maryland.
Download or read book The Grand Experiment written by Hamar Foster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and "law at the boundaries," they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the "incomplete implementation of the British constitution" in these colonies.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Download or read book Debtors and Creditors in America written by Peter J. Coleman and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans now depend more heavily upon credit than any other society on Earth, or any other time in history. Borrowing has become a way of life for millions of families, and it is hard to imagine a time when charge accounts did not exist. Nonetheless, it would be a mistake to assume that, because a wallet filled with plastic instead of cash is a relatively new phenomenon, Americans have not been borrowers and lenders since the colonization of the New World. Author Peter J. Coleman proves otherwise. In one Form or another -- notes of hand, book credit, commercial paper, mortgages, land contracts -- settlers borrowed to pay their passage from Europe, to buy and clear land, to build and operate mills, to purchase slaves, and to gamble and drink. Debtors' prison awaited those who could not pay their debts, and a pauper's grave received the unfortunate who lacked the private means to feed and clothe himself in prison. While the debtors' prisons described in this book no longer exist, the author maintains that our credit-oriented society has yet to devise cheap, efficient, equitable, and humane methods of enforcing contracts for debt.
Download or read book Modern Chivalry in Early American Law written by Madeline Sapienza and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains the legal contributions and observations of Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge, teacher, preacher, publisher, gazetteer, lawyer, and fiction writer who reached the pinnacle of his career during the Jeffersonian era. Brackenridge's body of legal thought is juxtaposed with the published lectures of James Wilson, the commentaries on Blackstone by St. George Tucker, and selections from The Federalist Papers. Contents: Modern Chivalry: The Early Books; Modern Chivalry: The Later Books; Overview of Law Miscellanies; Selected State Supreme Court Cases; Concluding Thoughts.
Download or read book The Aristocracy of the Long Robe written by Jack M. Sosin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-09-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is judicial review constitutionally required or even authorized? Can it be said whether the federal courts exercise this power with the consent of the electorate? Sosin addresses these challenging questions in the broad context of the Anglo-American historical experience. He examines the evolution of courts of judicature and legislatures and the contests for power that were waged from the seventeenth to eighteenth century. The origins of the English court system and the establishment of common law are first described. The author traces the rise in judicial and parliamentary power that occurred with the erosion of the royal prerogative and discusses the constitutional and legal heritage that provided the framework for law, courts, and legislatures in colonial America. Following an examination of political, legislative, and legal development during the colonial period, Sosin looks at the philosophical and ideological controversies that influenced the framing of the Constitution, particulary the conflicting views of the proper relationship between the legislature and judiciary. Despite the emphatic opposition voiced by some framers to giving judges the power to overturn legislative action by ruling on the constitutionality of federal laws, the Supreme Court was able to declare itself the final arbiter and ultimate interpreter of the Constitution as early as the first decade of the nineteenth century. The author's analysis indicates that the Court's assumption of the power of judicial review was neither inevitable politically nor the logical result of the founders desire to limit government and protect the rights of individuals against interferences by public authority. Echoing early English and American political figures, Sosin asks whether this expanded, arbitrary judicial power can be considered appropriate in a representative democracy. The product of meticulous research and careful historical analysis, this provocative study will be relevant reading for a variety of courses in American government, political science, and history.
