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Remaking Custom : Law and Identity in the Early American Republic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jeffersonian America SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813930930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Remaking CustomDDC classification:
  • 349.73
LOC classification:
  • KF366.P43 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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