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American law and the constitutional order: historical perspectives
Lawrence M. Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber
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Frontmatter
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Part One American Legal Culture (page 1)
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1 The Law in United States History (Willard Hurst, page 3)
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2 Notes Toward a History of American Justice (Lawrence M. Friedman, page 13)
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Part Two Studies in Colonial Law (page 27)
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3 King's Law and Local Custom in Seventeenth-Century New England (Julius Goebel, Jr., page 29)
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4 The Legal Heritage of Plymouth Colony (George L. Haskins, page 38)
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5 The Politics of Law in Colonial America: Controversies over Chancery Courts and Equity Law in the Eighteenth Century (Stanley N. Katz, page 46)
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6 Law and Enforcement of Morals in Early America (David Flaherty, page 53)
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Part Three The Revolution and the New Constitutional Order (page 67)
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7 Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-Century America (Pauline Maier, page 69)
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8 Federalism and the Constitution: The Original Understanding (Harry N. Scheiber, page 85)
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9 Liberty and the First Amendment: 1790-1800 (Leonard W. Levy, page 99)
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Part Four Law and the Economy in Ante-bellum America (page 107)
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10 The Release of Energy (Willard Hurst, page 109)
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11 An Overview of American Land Policy (Paul W. Gates, page 121)
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12 Property Law, Expropriation, and Resource Allocation by Government, 1789-1910 (Harry N. Scheiber, page 132)
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13 The Transformation in the Conception of Property in American Law, 1780-1860 (Morton J. Horwitz, page 142)
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14 The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw (Leonard W. Levy, page 151)
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Part Five Crime, Criminal Justice, and Violence (page 163)
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15 Emerging Notions of Modern Criminal Law in the Revolutionary Era: An Historical Perspective (William E. Nelson, page 165)
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16 Violence and Vigilantism in American History (Richard Maxwell Brown, page 173)
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17 Urbanization and Criminal Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Massachusetts as a Test Case (Roger Lane, page 191)
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Part Six Slavery and the Civil War (page 201)
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18 Chattels Personal (Kenneth M. Stampp, page 203)
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19 The American Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis (Arthur Bestor, page 219)
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Part Seven The New Legal Order: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (page 235)
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20 The Reconstruction of Federal Judicial Power, 1863-1876 (William M. Wiecek, page 237)
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21 Justice Field and the Jurisprudence of Government-Business Relations: Some Parameters of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism, 1863-1897 (Charles W. McCurdy, page 246)
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Part Eight Progressivism and the Law (page 267)
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22 Social Change and the Law of Industrial Accidents (Lawrence M. Friedman and Jack Ladinsky, page 269)
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23 Legal Progressivism, the Courts, and the Crisis of the 1890s (Arnold M. Paul, page 283)
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Part Nine Crime and Social Control in the Twentieth Century (page 291)
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24 Behavior Modification in Total Institutions: An Historical Overview (David J. Rothman, page 293)
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25 Urban Crime and Criminal Justice: The Chicago Case (Mark H. Haller, page 304)
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Part Ten Race Relations and the Law (page 315)
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26 Negro Involuntary Servitude in the South, 1865-1940: A Preliminary Analysis (William Cohen, page 317)
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27 Moorfield Storey and the Struggle for Equality (William B. Hixson, Jr., page 331)
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28 Earl Warren and the Brown Decision (S. Sidney Ulmer, page 343)
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Part Eleven The Bar and the New Jurisprudence (page 351)
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29 Lawyers and Clients in the Twentieth Century (Jerold S. Auerbach, page 353)
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30 American Jurisprudence between the Wars: Legal Realism and the Crisis of Democratic Theory (Edward A. Purcell, Jr., page 359)
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Part Twelve The Regulatory and Welfare State (page 375)
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31 The New Property (Charles A. Reich, page 377)
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Part Thirteen The Contemporary Legal Order (page 395)
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32 Judicial Review and Basic Liberties (John P. Frank, page 397)
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33 Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law (Herbert Wechsler, page 408)
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34 Social Cohesion and the Crisis of Law (David M. Potter, page 420)
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Notes (page 435)
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Contributors (page 521)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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WPQ | 32.2 (Jun. 1979): 236-237 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/448194 |
AJLH | 24.1 (Jan. 1980): 93-94 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/844601 |
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Published: 1978
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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