The Transatlantic Constitution Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire |
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| Author:
| Bilder, Mary Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-02719-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood.
Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood.