E Pluribus Unum

How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvWilliam E. Nelson,New York University) Nelson, William E. (Professor of Law, Professor of Law,William E Nelson

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The colonies that comprised pre-revolutionary America had thirteen legal systems and governments. Given their diversity, how did they evolve into a single nation? In E Pluribus Unum, the eminent legal historian William E. Nelson explains how this diverse array of legal orders gradually converged over time, laying the groundwork for the founding of the United States. From their inception, the colonies exercised a range of approaches to the law. For instance, while New England based its legal system around the word of God, Maryland followed the common law tradition, and New York adhered to Dutch law. Over time, though, the British crown standardized legal procedure in an effort to more uniformly and efficiently exert control over the Empire. But, while the common law emerged as the dominant system across the colonies, its effects were far from what English rulers had envisioned.E Pluribus Unum highlights the political context in which the common law developed and how it influenced the United States Constitution. In practice, the triumph of the common law over competing approaches gave lawyers more authority than governing officials. By the end of the eighteenth century, many colonial legal professionals began to espouse constitutional ideology that would mature into the doctrine of judicial review. In turn, laypeople came to accept constitutional doctrine by the time of independence in 1776.Ultimately, Nelson shows that the colonies' gradual embrace of the common law was instrumental to the establishment of the United States. Not simply a masterful legal history of colonial America, Nelson's magnum opus fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the sources of both the American Revolution and the Founding.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-10
Mått236 x 160 x 27 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190880804

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Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
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William E. Nelson is Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, New York University. In 1961, he founded the Legal History Colloquium at NYU Law School, where nearly 100 younger scholars have held fellowships and received post-graduate training, and has presided over the Colloquium since that time. He has been writing and teaching in the field of American legal history for nearly fifty years and is the author of many books, including four volumes of The Common Law in Colonial America (Oxford), The Roots of American Bureaucracy, Americanization of the Common Law, and The Fourteenth Amendment.

Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: The Initial Settlements, 1607-1660Chapter 1: The ChesapeakeChapter 2: New EnglandChapter 3: New NetherlandPart Two: The Forging of Empire, 1660-1750Chapter 4: The Crown's Imposition of the Common Law and Colonial ResistanceChapter 5: The End of Resistance and the Triumph of the Common LawChapter 6: Ready Acceptance of the Common Law: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the SouthChapter 7: The Emergence of the Legal ProfessionChapter 8: Property, Commercial Law, Labor Law, and SlaveryPart Three: Altering Empire to Defeat France, 1689-1750Chapter 9: The Local Structure of PowerChapter 10: The Law of ReligionChapter 11: Criminal and Regulatory LawPart Four: The Collapse of Empire, 1750-1776Chapter 12: The Well-Functioning Empire of the Mid-Eighteenth CenturyChapter 13: Weakening the Bonds of EmpireChapter 14: Testing the Bonds of EmpireChapter 15: Severing the Ties of EmpireChapter 16: An Historian's PostscriptBibliography

Nelson's historiographic goal, which he unquestionably succeeds at, is encouraging further research on how different structures of colonial government benefited different interests and social groups. Nelson offers up ample places for historians to delve deeper, focusing on specific geographic regions, temporal periods, or legal developments. There is clearly a great depth within this subject, and in that regard Nelson sets up other historians to do that work, while simultaneously drawing meaningful conclusions in a work committed to breadth.

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