578 Pages
by
Routledge
580 Pages
by
Routledge
580 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Intended for the general public, the readings in this collection explore the roots of American law from pre-history to ancient Greece and Rome and the common law of England. America's legal development is traced from the drafting of the Constitution to the Rehnquist Court. Themes along the way include the ?Golden Age? of the early nineteenth century, when American law took on its distinctive... Read more
The Roots of American Law * The Origins of Law * Ancient Law * Medieval Europe * The Rights of Englishmen * Clarifying English Law The Growth of American Law * From Thirteen Colonies to United States * Federalists versus Republicans * The Golden Age * The Jacksonian Era * Slavery * The Civil War * Reconstruction and Formalism * The Life of the Law * The Progressive Movement * Federal Regulation * War and Civil Liberties * The 1920s and the New Deal * War and Civil Liberties II * The Aftermath of War * The Cold War * The Civil Rights Revolution * The Warren Court * The Vietnam War * From Protests to Scandals * The Expansion of Civil Rights * Consumerism and Environmentalism * The Late Twentieth Century American Law in the Twenty-first Century * The Legal Profession * Access to Law * Science and Technology * The World Community * The Last Frontier * Legal Philosophy
Biography
George S Grossman
