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Author Stimson, Shannon C., author.

Title The American Revolution in the law : Anglo-American jurisprudence before John Marshall / Shannon C. Stimson.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1990.
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In 1773 John Adams observed that one source of tension in the debate between England and the colonies could be traced to the different conceptions each side had of the terms ""legally"" and ""constitutionally""--Different conceptions that were, as Shannon Stimson here demonstrates, symptomatic of deeper jurisprudential, political, and even epistemological differences between the two governmental outlooks. This study of the political and legal thought of the American revolution and founding period explores the differences between late eighteenth-century British and American perceptions of th.
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Subject United States. Supreme Court -- History.
United States. Supreme Court.
History.
Justice, Administration of -- United States -- History.
Justice, Administration of.
United States.
Jury -- United States -- History.
Jury.
Judicial review -- United States -- History.
Judicial review.
Chronological Term 1789-1815
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stimson, Shannon C. American Revolution in the law : Anglo-American jurisprudence before John Marshall. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c1990 xii, 228 pages 9780691604381 90035658
ISBN 9781400861477 electronic book
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