Author: Daniel Dewey BarnardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Public Services of Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York
Author: Daniel Dewey BarnardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Public Services of Ambrose Spenser, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York
Author: Daniel Dewey BarnardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Memorial of Ambrose Spencer, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Author: A Discourse on the Life, Character and Public Services of Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371595138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Catalogue. General library
Author: New York state, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1855
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Public Services of James Kent, Late Chancellor of the State of New-York
Author: John DuerMan and Wife in America
Author: Hendrik HartogPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264363
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits. Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right. As we watch and listen to these men and women, enmeshed in law and escaping from marriages, we catch reflected images both of ourselves and our parents, of our desires and our anxieties about marriage. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.
Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic
Author: Thomas H. CoxPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082144333X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce. Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. But what began as a local dispute over the right to ferry the paying public from the New Jersey shore to New York City soon found its way into John Marshall’s court and constitutional history. The case is consistently ranked as one of the twenty most significant Supreme Court decisions and is still taught in constitutional law courses, cited in state and federal cases, and quoted in articles on constitutional, business, and technological history. Gibbons v. Ogden initially attracted enormous public attention because it involved the development of a new and sensational form of technology. To early Americans, steamboats were floating symbols of progress—cheaper and quicker transportation that could bring goods to market and refinement to the backcountry. A product of the rough-and-tumble world of nascent capitalism and legal innovation, the case became a landmark decision that established the supremacy of federal regulation of interstate trade, curtailed states’ rights, and promoted a national market economy. The case has been invoked by prohibitionists, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and social conservatives alike in debates over federal regulation of issues ranging from labor standards to gun control. This lively study fills in the social and political context in which the case was decided—the colorful and fascinating personalities, the entrepreneurial spirit of the early republic, and the technological breakthroughs that brought modernity to the masses.