Pearson, Ellen Holmes. <br/><br/>
Remaking Custom :  Law and Identity in the Early American Republic. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (269 pages) 
 - Jeffersonian America Series .
 - Jeffersonian America Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. America's Common Law: Custom, Choice, and History Lessons -- 2. American Constitutions and American Character -- 3. Property Acquisition and Inheritance -- 4. The Question of Slavery in the New Republic -- 5. Public Lands, Expansion, and the Native Americans -- 6. Custom, the Written Law, and American Legal Treatises -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. 
<br/><br/> The book deals with innovations that presented uncomfortable challenges to law educators as they sought creative ways to justify the legal cultures that grew up around slavery and Anglo-Americans' hunger for land occupied by Native Americans. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813930930 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--United States--History--18th century.<br/>Law--United States--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF366.P43 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>349.73