Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection

ISBN-13: 9781316614129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

Matthew Crow

Opis

Through his discussion of Thomas Jefferson, historian Matthew Crow offers a new perspective on constitutional transformation in early American history.

Recenzje

'Crow's insights on Jeffersonian thinking make this volume a welcome contribution to the intellectual history of the early Republic. Highly recommended.' R. F. Lucas, III, Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction: 'in the course of human events…'; 2. Jurisdiction and British legal memory in colonial Virginia; 3. New-modeling and rewriting in revolutionary Virginia; 4. Labor, language, and the legal subject of the Notes on the State of Virginia; 5. Governing the usufruct of the living; 6. The discipline of recollection; Index.