Servants of the Law - Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89 (Paperback)

Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest bench from 1857 to 1859 and, as events would later show, they confronted one another combatively, on and off, for almost thirty-five years. California's beginnings as a United States territory and later as the nation's thirty-first state were, in large part, fashioned in the wake of the country's malevolent and unforgiving the Civil War. Together, Terry and Field's lives served as an animate metaphor for the cultural and constitutional diversity that many nineteenth-century northern and southern judicial immigrants held toward one another.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Donald R. Burrill
Dimensions:	232 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-4891-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	0-7618-4891-6
Barcode:	9780761848912

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