In E Pluribus Unum, eminent legal historian William E. Nelson shows that the colonies' gradual embrace of the common law was instrumental to the establishment of the United States. He traces how the diverse legal orders of Britain's thirteen colonies gradually evolved into one system, adding to our understanding of how law impacted governance in the colonial era and beyond.
In E Pluribus Unum, eminent legal historian William E. Nelson shows that the colonies' gradual embrace of the common law was instrumental to the establishment of the United States. He traces how the diverse legal orders of Britain's thirteen colonies gradually evolved into one system, adding to our understanding of how law impacted governance in the colonial era and beyond.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
William E. Nelson is Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, New York University. In 1961, he founded the Legal History Colloquium at NYU Law School, where nearly 100 younger scholars have held fellowships and received post-graduate training, and has presided over the Colloquium since that time. He has been writing and teaching in the field of American legal history for nearly fifty years and is the author of many books, including four volumes of The Common Law in Colonial America (Oxford), The Roots of American Bureaucracy, Americanization of the Common Law, and The Fourteenth Amendment.
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* Table of Contents * Introduction * Part One: The Initial Settlements, 1607-1660 * Chapter 1: The Chesapeake * Chapter 2: New England * Chapter 3: New Netherland * Part Two: The Forging of Empire, 1660-1750 * Chapter 4: The Crown's Imposition of the Common Law and Colonial Resistance * Chapter 5: The End of Resistance and the Triumph of the Common Law * Chapter 6: Ready Acceptance of the Common Law: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the South * Chapter 7: The Emergence of the Legal Profession * Chapter 8: Property, Commercial Law, Labor Law, and Slavery * Part Three: Altering Empire to Defeat France, 1689-1750 * Chapter 9: The Local Structure of Power * Chapter 10: The Law of Religion * Chapter 11: Criminal and Regulatory Law * Part Four: The Collapse of Empire, 1750-1776 * Chapter 12: The Well-Functioning Empire of the Mid-Eighteenth Century * Chapter 13: Weakening the Bonds of Empire * Chapter 14: Testing the Bonds of Empire * Chapter 15: Severing the Ties of Empire * Chapter 16: An Historian's Postscript * Bibliography
* Table of Contents * Introduction * Part One: The Initial Settlements, 1607-1660 * Chapter 1: The Chesapeake * Chapter 2: New England * Chapter 3: New Netherland * Part Two: The Forging of Empire, 1660-1750 * Chapter 4: The Crown's Imposition of the Common Law and Colonial Resistance * Chapter 5: The End of Resistance and the Triumph of the Common Law * Chapter 6: Ready Acceptance of the Common Law: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the South * Chapter 7: The Emergence of the Legal Profession * Chapter 8: Property, Commercial Law, Labor Law, and Slavery * Part Three: Altering Empire to Defeat France, 1689-1750 * Chapter 9: The Local Structure of Power * Chapter 10: The Law of Religion * Chapter 11: Criminal and Regulatory Law * Part Four: The Collapse of Empire, 1750-1776 * Chapter 12: The Well-Functioning Empire of the Mid-Eighteenth Century * Chapter 13: Weakening the Bonds of Empire * Chapter 14: Testing the Bonds of Empire * Chapter 15: Severing the Ties of Empire * Chapter 16: An Historian's Postscript * Bibliography
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