The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
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Köp båda 2 för 685 krA slim but elegant volume.... There is surely a lesson for the legal community in this volume's reflection on the revolutionary role of legal argumentation in the country's founding. * Law360 * Looking at arguments of lawyers throughout the period, Hoffer and Hoffer contend that the American Revolution was a lawyer's revolution.... The book ends with a good set of notes and a detailed source listing, which will... make it useful for libraries. * Choice * The Clamor of Lawyers brings the Revolution to life through the chronicles of a series of public pronouncements made between 1761 and 1782.... Efficient and entertaining, the authors' telling of the American Revolution breathes life into the interaction between loyalist and revolutionary lawyers whose public discourse has served as the foundation of American governance. * Harvard Law Review * In The Clamor of Lawyers, Peter and Williamjames Hoffer father and son legal historians examine a series of public writings and speeches made by colonial lawyers in the years 1761 to 1782. * Comparative Legal History * This is an important and welcome contribution to our understanding of the revolutionary period and how arguments were shaped and reshaped by those trained in the law. * The Journal of American History *
Peter Charles Hoffer has taught early American history at Ohio State University, the University of Notre Dame, and Georgia, the latter since 1978. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 18351850. Williamjames Hull Hoffer was a Henry Rutgers scholar at Rutgers University in New Brunswick before he entered law school, receiving both his J.D. and Ph.D. He now teaches at Seton Hall University. He is co-author of The Federal Courts: An Essential History.
Preface Introduction: A Lawyer's Revolution 1. "The Worst Instrument of Arbitrary Power" 2. "The Alienation of the Affection of the Colonies" 3. "My Dear Countrymen Rouse Yourselves" 4. "A Right Which Nature Has Given to All Men" 5. "That These Colonies Are...Free and Independent States" Conclusion: The Legacy of the Lawyers' American Revolution Notes A Note on Sources Index