Law 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.
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