Author: George Clinton
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: George Clinton
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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Author: Brian W. Dotts
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739167200
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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The radical Democratic-Republican Societies that emerged during the 1790s not only challenged conventional interpretations of the civic republican tradition, they also adopted Enlightenment principles in their advocacy for universal public education. Brian W. Dotts' The Politi...

Author: Steven Wilf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance against England, the proliferation of revolutionary legal language became intimately intertwined with politics. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases, Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law: reading one case against another and often self-consciously comparing transatlantic legal systems as they thought about how they might construct their own legal system in a new republic. What transformed extraordinary tales of crime into a political forum? How did different ways of reading or speaking about law shape our legal origins? And, ultimately, how might excavating innovative approaches to law in this formative period, which were constructed in the street as well as in the courtroom, alter our usual understanding of contemporary American legal institutions? Law's Imagined Republic tells the story of the untidy beginnings of American law.

Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1178

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Author: Sharon M. Harris
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209750
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Executing Race examines the multiple ways in which race, class, and the law impacted women's lives in the 18th century and, equally important, the ways in which women sought to change legal and cultural attitudes in this volatile period. Through an examination of infanticide cases, Harris reveals how conceptualizations of women, especially their bodies and their legal rights, evolved over the course of the 18th century. Early in the century, infanticide cases incorporated the rhetoric of the witch trials. However, at mid-century, a few women, especially African American women, began to challenge definitions of "bastardy" (a legal requirement for infanticide), and by the end of the century, women were rarely executed for this crime as the new nation reconsidered illegitimacy in relation to its own struggle to establish political legitimacy. Against this background of legal domination of women's lives, Harris exposes the ways in which women writers and activists negotiated legal territory to invoke their voices into the radically changing legal discourse.

Author: Alfred Connable
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Category : Tammany Hall
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Peter Hercules Wendover
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Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: New York Public Library. Reference Dept
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1110

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Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.