American Revolution In the Law (eBook)

Anglo-American Jurisprudence before John Marshall

Shannon C. Stimson (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2014
242 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6147-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1773 John Adams observed that one source of tension in the debate between England and the colonies could be traced to the different conceptions each side had of the terms "e;legally"e; and "e;constitutionally"e;--different conceptions that were, as Shannon Stimson here demonstrates, symptomatic of deeper jurisprudential, political, and even epistemological differences between the two governmental outlooks. This study of the political and legal thought of the American revolution and founding period explores the differences between late eighteenth-century British and American perceptions of the judicial and jural power.In Stimson's book, which will interest both historians and theorists of law and politics, the study of colonial juries provides an incisive tool for organizing, interpreting, and evaluating various strands of American political theory, and for challenging the common assumption of a basic unity of vision of the roots of Anglo-American jurisprudence. The author introduces an original concept, that of "e;judicial space,"e; to account for the development of the highly political role of the Supreme Court, a judicial body that has no clear counterpart in English jurisprudence.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Schlagworte: Alien and Sedition Acts • American jurisprudence • american political thought • American Thinker • American Vision • Anti-Federalism • Bill of rights • Chisholm v. Georgia • Code of law • Cohens v. Virginia • Colonial history of the United States • Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States • Common Law • Constitution • constitutional amendment • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • constitutional law • constitutional right • Constitutional theory • Constitution of the United Kingdom • Court of equity • Courts of England and Wales • Dartmouth College v. Woodward • Defense (legal) • Edward Coke • Electoral College (United States) • English Civil War • English law • English Revolution • English rule (attorney's fees) • Federal common law • First Continental Congress • Fletcher v. Peck • Hutu • Hutu Power • Ideology • International Law • John Locke • Judicial Independence • Judiciary • Jurisprudence • Jury • Law of the United States • lawyer • Legal Formalism • Legal History • Legal Practice • legal profession • Legal treatise • Legislation • Legislature • Liberalism • Marbury v. Madison • Massachusetts Spy • Militarism • New Laws • New Trial • New York Attorney General • New York Constitution • New York Supreme Court • Parliamentary sovereignty • Parliament of England • Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 • Petition of Right • Political Philosophy • Politics • politics of the united states • Politique • popular sovereignty • Precedent • Prosecutor • Puritans • Question of law • Radicalism (historical) • reflections on the revolution in france • Refugee • Revolution • Rule of Law • Rwanda • Seditious libel • Sons of liberty • Sovereignty • Standing (law) • State court (United States) • State law (United States) • states' rights • Statute • supreme court of the united states • Test case (law) • The Federalist Papers • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution • Tories (British political party) • Tutsi • Two Treatises of Government • Uganda • United States Bill of Rights • United States constitution • Whig history • Whigs (British political party)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6147-0 / 1400861470
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6147-7 / 9781400861477