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Common law and natural law in America: from the puritans to the legal realists

By Forsyth , Andrew

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781108476973, 9781108576772, 110847697X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4204989 bytes)
Series
Law and christianity
Pages
\174
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Common law;Common law--United States--History;Juri

Description

1. Puritan natural law: early New England and the colonial colleges 2. Modern natural law: revolutionaries and republicans 3. Organizing common law: William Blackstone in America 4. subsuming natural law into common law: Joseph Story 5. Law as science: Christopher Columbus Langdell 6. Breaking with natural law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the legal realists Epilogue Index.

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