Author: James IredellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A New Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina
Author: James IredellA Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina
Author: James IredellThe People and Their Peace
Author: Laura F. EdwardsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
A New Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina
Author: James IredellThe Development of Southern Sectionalism
Author: Charles S. SydnorPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Sectionalism (United States)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Senators of the United States
Author: Diane B. BoylePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
S. Doc. 103-34. Compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens, Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant, prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate. Lists scholarly works that profile the lives and legislative service of senators and their autobiographies and other published works.
Senators of the United States
Author: Checklist of Government Documents in the New York Public Library. March, 1899
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description