Modern American Law: General introduction
Author : William Charles Wermuth
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Civil procedure
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Author : William Charles Wermuth
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Civil procedure
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Author : Eugene Allen Gilmore
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781343805231
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Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0812972856
Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.
Author : William Charles Wermuth
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Bankruptcy
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Author : Eugene Allen Gilmore
Publisher :
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Law
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Author : Susanna L. Blumenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674048935
In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychological as well as a political project, jurists built a republic of laws upon the Enlightenment science of the mind with the aim of producing a responsible citizenry. Susanna Blumenthal probes the assumptions and consequences of this undertaking, revealing how ideas about consciousness, agency, and accountability have shaped American jurisprudence. Focusing on everyday adjudication, Blumenthal shows that mental soundness was routinely disputed in civil as well as criminal cases. Litigants presented conflicting religious, philosophical, and medical understandings of the self, intensifying fears of a populace maddened by too much liberty. Judges struggled to reconcile common sense notions of rationality with novel scientific concepts that suggested deviant behavior might result from disease rather than conscious choice. Determining the threshold of competence was especially vexing in litigation among family members that raised profound questions about the interconnections between love and consent. This body of law coalesced into a jurisprudence of insanity, which also illuminates the position of those to whom the insane were compared, particularly children, married women, and slaves. Over time, the liberties of the eccentric expanded as jurists came to recognize the diversity of beliefs held by otherwise reasonable persons. In calling attention to the problematic relationship between consciousness and liability, Law and the Modern Mind casts new light on the meanings of freedom in the formative era of American law.
Author : William Charles Wermuth
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Law
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Author : Ajay K. Mehrotra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107043921
Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.
Author : William Charles Wermuth
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Law
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Author : Eugene Allen Gilmore
Publisher :
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Law
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