The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the EmpireHarvard University Press, 2008 M03 31 - 308 pages Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution—that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances—shaped the legal development of the colonial world. |
Contents
Legal Practitioners and Legal Literates | 15 |
The Laws of England | 31 |
The Laws of Rhode Island | 51 |
TRANSATLANTIC LEGAL PRACTICE | 71 |
The Transatlantic Appeal | 73 |
Women Family Property | 91 |
Personnel and Practices | 116 |
VISIONS OF THE TRANSATLANTIC CONSTITUTION | 143 |
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