Download or read book Law in American Meetinghouses written by Jeffrey Thomas Perry and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution. Most Americans today would not think of their local church as a site for arbitration and would probably be hesitant to bring their property disputes, moral failings, or personal squabbles to their kin and neighbors for judgment. But from the Revolutionary Era through the mid-nineteenth century, many Protestants imbued local churches with immense authority. Through their ritual practice of discipline, churches insisted that brethren refrain from suing each other before "infidels" at local courts and claimed jurisdiction over a range of disputes: not only moral issues such as swearing, drunkenness, and adultery but also matters more typically considered to be under the purview of common law and courts of equity, including disputes over trespass, land, probate, slave warranty, and theft. In Law in American Meetinghouses, Jeffrey Thomas Perry explores the ways that ordinary Americans—Black and white, enslaved and free—understood and created law in their local communities, uncovering a vibrant marketplace of authority in which church meetinghouses played a central role in maintaining their neighborhoods' social peace. Churches were once prominent sites for the creation of local law and in this period were a primary arena in which civil and religious authority collided and shaped one another. When church discipline failed, the wronged parties often pushed back, and their responses highlight the various forces that ultimately hindered that venue's ability to effectively arbitrate disputes between members. Relying primarily on a deep reading of church records and civil case files, Perry examines how legal transformations, an expanding market economy, and religious controversy led churchgoers to reimagine their congregations' authority. By the 1830s, unable to resolve doctrinal quibbles within the fellowship, church factions turned to state courts to secure control over their meetinghouses, often demanding that judges wade into messy ecclesiastical disputes. Tracking changes in disciplinary rigor in Kentucky Baptist churches from that state's frontier period through 1845, and looking beyond statutes and court decrees, Law in American Meetinghouses is a fresh take on church-state relations. Ultimately, it highlights an oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious institutions alongside state authority.
Download or read book Remarks and Addresses written by American Law Institute. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Open Meeting Laws 3D 2 Volume Set written by Ann Taylor Schwing and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If an informed citizenry is to meaningfully participate in government or at least understand why government acts affecting their daily lives are taken, the process of decision making as well as the end results must be conducted in full view of the governed. Oklahoma Ass'n of Municipal Attorneys v. State, 577 P.2d 1310, 1313-14 (Okla. 1978). Open Meeting Laws 3d is a national treatise covering all 50 states laws updated as of July 2011. It is the complete open meeting law reference. Open meeting laws typically apply to all elected officials and all public or governmental bodies, as well as particular types of private corporations. This edition greatly expands the analysis and the collected statutes, cases and other materials, from 720 pages to 1288 pages, especially expanding the materials on electronic communications and open meeting litigation. "If open meeting laws are effectively to do their intended work of fostering accountability and citizen participation in government, it is important that the legal community and kindred others have them available, together with cognate decisional law, in a single coherent compilation. In providing that resource, Ann Taylor Schwing has significantly elevated the democratic values of government openness, responsiveness and accountability over official neglect and venality and public apathy." Foreword by Robert K Puglia, Former Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal, Third Judicial District (1974-1998).
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