The transformation of American law, 1780-1860 / Morton J. Horwitz.
In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting vie...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1977.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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