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020			_a9780511844997 (ebook)
020			_z9780521196901 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aKF9223 _b.W533 2010
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100	1		_aWilf, Steven, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLaw's Imagined Republic : _bPopular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America / _cSteven Wilf.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (254 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aLaw'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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521196901
830		0	_aCambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844997
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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