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Title The legal mind in America : from independence to the Civil War / edited by Perry Miller
Published Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1969
United States of America : Vail-Ballou Press, Inc
©1962

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Series HeinOnline legal classics library
Legal classics library
Contents Sketches of the principles of government (1793) / Nathaniel Chipman -- The origin of government and laws in Connecticut (1798) / Jesse Root -- American jurisprudence (1815) / Richard Rush -- The Dartmouth College case (1818) / Daniel Webster -- Address delivered before the members of the Suffolk Bar (1821) / Joseph Story -- A discourse concerning the influence of American on the mInd (1823) / Charles Jared Ingersoll -- A lecture, introductory to a course of lectures (1823) / David Hoffman -- A lecture, introductory to a course of law lectures (1824) / James Kent -- A dissertation on the nature and extent of the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States (1824) / Peter du Ponceau -- An anniversary discourse (1824) / William Sampson -- On an anniversary discourse (1824) / Henry Dwight Sedgwick -- An oration (1827) / Thomas Smith Grimké -- Review of cases (1827) / James Madison Porter -- Discourse pronounced upon the inauguration of the author (1829) / Joseph Story -- Vice unmasked (1830) / P.W. Grayson -- An address (1832) / Josiah Quincey -- Oration at Scituate (1836) / Robert Rantoul, Jr. -- An address (1837) / James Richardson -- Introductory lecture (1837) / Timothy Walker -- The position and functions of the American Bar (1845) / Rufus Choate -- Law and lawyers (1846) / James Jackson -- Reform in the legal profession (1855) / David Dudley Field -- A treatise on the rules (1857) / Theodore Sedgwick
Summary Twenty-three documents and speeches concerned with the emergence and the formulation of a theory of American law, edited with an introduction and notes by Perry Miller
Notes "Cornell paperbacks."
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday/Anchor Books, 1962
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law -- United States.
Jurisprudence -- United States
Jurisprudence
Law
Recht
United States
USA
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Perry, 1905-1963, editor.
Chipman, Nathaniel, 1752-1843, contributor.
Root, Jesse, 1736-1822, contributor.
Rush, Richard, 1780-1859, contributor.
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852, contributor.
Story, Joseph, 1779-1845, contributor.
Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 1782-1862, contributor.
Hoffman, David, 1784-1854, contributor.
Kent, James, 1763-1847, contributor.
Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844, contributor.
Sampson, William, 1764-1836, contributor.
Sedgwick, Henry D. (Henry Dwight), 1785-1831, contributor.
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834, contributor.
Porter, James Madison, 1793-1862, contributor.
Grayson, P. W., contributor.
Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864, contributor.
Rantoul, Robert, Jr., 1805-1852, contributor.
Richardson, James, 1771-1858, contributor.
Walker, Timothy, 1802-1856, contributor.
Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859, contributor.
Jackson, James, 1819-1887, contributor.
Field, David Dudley, 1805-1894, contributor.
Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859, contributor.