CONTRACT & CONSENT REPRESENTATION AND THE JURY IN ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORYPDF电子书下载

Part I CONTRACT AND CONSENT 3

Introduction Reason and Custom 3

1.Where the Law Comes From The Courts and the Making of Society 9

2.John Slade’s Other Harvest Common Law, Contract, and the American Republic 34

3.Sedition and the Jury in London and New York 64

4.American Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty 106

5.Inferences and Continuities 121

Part Ⅱ OCCASIONAL ESSAYS 137

6.Some Problems of a Colonial Attorney General in a Multicultural Society 137

7.Bicameralism and Republican Government in the British American Colonies and in the United States 154

8.The Individual, the Region, the Nation Where Three Roads Meet 172

9.Nation-Making and the American Constitutional Process 185

10.The Performance of Representative Institutions, 1776—1876 Ideology, Estates, and Interests 199

Notes 219

Index 247