Remaking custom law and identity in the early American Republic /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Jeffersonian America.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- America's common law : custom, choice, and history lessons
- American constitutions and American character
- Property acquisition and inheritance
- The question of slavery in the New Republic
- Public lands, expansion, and the Native Americans
- Custom, the written law, and American legal treatises
- Conclusion.