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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Phillip Reid |
| ISBN: | 0271012404 9780271012407 |
| OCLC Number: | 2463402 |
| Description: | 225 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. In the Very Face of Government: The American Comparison -- 2. It Signifies Little Who Is Governor: The Locus of Law -- 3. Sourve from Whence the Clamors Flow: The Conditions of Law -- 4. Democracy Is Too Prevalent in America: The Civil Traverse Jury -- 5. Juries Lie Open to Management: The Uses of the Grand Jury -- 6. In Defiance of the Threats: The Criminal Traverse Jury -- 7. Unless Law Are Enforced: The Legitimacy of Whig Law -- 8. By Consent of the Council: The Import of Local Control -- 9. The Seeds of Anarchy: The Execution of Whig Law -- 10. The Same Leaven with the People: The Legal Mind of the American Whig -- 11. Disjointed and Independent of Each Other: The Conditions of Imperial Law -- 12. The Government They Have Set Up: The Emergence of Whig Government -- 13. The Oppression of Centuries: The Irish Comparison -- 14. A Most Dreadful Ruin: The Legal Mind of British-Ruled Ireland -- 15. To Effect a Revolution: The Execution of Imperial Law -- 16. Enforced by Mobs: The Rule of Law |
| Responsibility: | John Phillip Reid. |
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