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Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution
Inbunden, 1989
688 kr
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"Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violating constitutional precepts. Colonial Whigs did not fight for American rights. They fought for English rights."—from the Preface John Phillip Reid …
Contested Empire
Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions
Inbunden, 2002
314 kr
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Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics?To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the …
Contested Empire
Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions
Häftad, 2020
255 kr
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Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics?To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the …
Forging a Fur Empire Volume 36
Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809–1824
Häftad, 2027
261 kr
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Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar territory east of trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana. …
Controlling the Law
Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire
Inbunden, 2004
619 kr
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In today's courtroom, the jurors evaluate the evidence and pronounce the verdict while the judge has final authority in interpreting the law-but it was not always so. In colonial America, the jurors enjoyed a much greater say. Legal historian John Phillip Reid recounts how the judges gained their …
Rule of Law
The Jurisprudence of Liberty in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2004
489 kr
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"Rule of law"-the idea that the law is the nation's sovereign authority-has served as a cornerstone for constitutional theory and the jurisprudence of liberty. When law reigns over governors and the governed alike, a citizen need not fear capricious monarchs, arbitrary judges, or calculating …
Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty
Inbunden, 2005
546 kr
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English and American lawyers appealed to "the ancient constitution" as the cornerstone of liberty. According to this idea, constitutional law was not dictated by a monarch but based on the authority of custom, passed down unaltered from time immemorial. …
Legislating the Courts
Judicial Dependence in Early National New Hampshire
Inbunden, 2008
358 kr
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In the first decades of the nineteeth century, legal reformers in the United States strove to standardize courtroom procedures and expand judges' power at the expense of jurors while simultaneously imposing uniformity upon judicial decision making. Reid's previous book, Controlling the Law, offered …
Legitimating the Law
The Struggle for Judicial Competency in Early National New Hampshire
Inbunden, 2012
606 kr
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John Phillip Reid is one of the most highly regarded historians of law as it was practiced on the state level in the nascent United States. He is not just the recipient of numerous honors for his scholarship but the type of historian after whom such accolades are named: the John Phillip Reid Award …
Law of Blood
The Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation
Häftad, 2006
267 kr
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John Phillip Reid is widely known for his groundbreaking work in American legal history. A Law of Blood, first published in the early 1970s, led the way in an additional newly emerging academic field: American Indian history. As the field has flourished, this book has remained an authoritative …
