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Contract & consent : representation and the jury in Anglo-American legal history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pole, J. R. (Jack Richon)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Law > United States > History.
Law > England > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Where the law comes from : the courts and the making of society
  • John Slade's other harvest : common law, contract, and the American republic
  • Sedition and the jury in London and New York
  • American independence and the crisis of sovereignty
  • Inferences and continuities
  • Some problems of a colonial attorney general in a multicultural society
  • Bicameralism and republican government in the British American colonies and in the United States
  • The individual, the region, the nation : where three roads meet
  • Nation-making and the American constitutional process
  • The performance of representative institutions, 1776-1876 : ideology, estates, and interests.