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Law and People in Colonial America (Paperback, second edition)
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Law and People in Colonial America (Paperback, second edition)
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An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings
of American law. How did American colonists transform British law
into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions,
and who served in them? And why did the early Americans develop a
passion for litigation that continues to this day? In Law and
People in Colonial America, Peter Charles Hoffer tells the story of
early American law from its beginnings on the British mainland to
its maturation during the crisis of the American Revolution. For
the men and women of colonial America, Hoffer explains, law was a
pervasive influence in everyday life. Because it was their law, the
colonists continually adapted it to fit changing circumstances.
They also developed a sense of legalism that influenced virtually
all social, economic, and political relationships. This sense of
intimacy with the law, Hoffer argues, assumed a transforming power
in times of crisis. In the midst of a war for independence,
American revolutionaries used their intimacy with the law to
explain how their rebellion could be lawful, while legislators
wrote republican constitutions that would endure for centuries.
Today the role of law in American life is more pervasive than ever.
And because our system of law involves a continuing dialogue
between past and present, interpreting the meaning of precedent and
of past legislation, the study of legal history is a vital part of
every citizen's basic education. Taking advantage of rich new
scholarship that goes beyond traditional approaches to view slavery
as a fundamental cultural and social institution as well as an
economic one, this second edition includes an extensive, entirely
new chapter on colonial and revolutionary-era slave law. Law and
People in Colonial America is a lively introduction to early
American law. It makes for essential reading.
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