Contract & consent : representation and the jury in Anglo-American legal history / J.R. Pole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pole, J. R. (Jack Richon)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--History.

Law.

Law--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Contract and consent

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Having established the basis of Anglo-American legal history in contract and common law in part one, in the second half of the volume Pole explores various constitutional and legal themes, from bicameralism in Britain and America and the role of the Constitution in the making of American nationality to the performance of representative institutions in the century following the American Revolution.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813928920

0813928923

OCLC:

741764463