The lawyers who made America : from Jamestown to the White House / Anthony Arlidge QC.
2017
KF353 .A75 2017 (Mapit)
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Author
Arlidge, Anthony, author.
Title
The lawyers who made America : from Jamestown to the White House / Anthony Arlidge QC.
Imprint
Oxford ; London : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2017.
Description
xiii, 213 pages ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue : Walter Raleigh
Maps and explorers : Richard Hakluyt
The Virginia Company : John Popham
Democracy : Edwyn Sandys
Religion and liberty : Nathaniel Ward
Toleration : Cecil Calvert and William Penn
Representation : James Otis Junior
The common law : William Blackstone
Penman of the Revolution : John Dickinson
Revolution : John Adams
Independence : Thomas Jefferson
Constitution : John Rutledge
Bill of Rights : Roger Sherman and James Madison
Nationhood : Alexander Hamilton
Consolidation : John Marshall
Slavery abolished : Abraham Lincoln
The world stage : Woodrow Wilson
Legal dynamism : Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior and Louis Brandeis
Social intervention : Earl Warren
The President under the law : Archibald Cox and Richard Nixon
The glass ceiling : Sandra O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Epilogue : Barack Obama
Appendix : First fourteen amendments to the United States Constitution.
Maps and explorers : Richard Hakluyt
The Virginia Company : John Popham
Democracy : Edwyn Sandys
Religion and liberty : Nathaniel Ward
Toleration : Cecil Calvert and William Penn
Representation : James Otis Junior
The common law : William Blackstone
Penman of the Revolution : John Dickinson
Revolution : John Adams
Independence : Thomas Jefferson
Constitution : John Rutledge
Bill of Rights : Roger Sherman and James Madison
Nationhood : Alexander Hamilton
Consolidation : John Marshall
Slavery abolished : Abraham Lincoln
The world stage : Woodrow Wilson
Legal dynamism : Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior and Louis Brandeis
Social intervention : Earl Warren
The President under the law : Archibald Cox and Richard Nixon
The glass ceiling : Sandra O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Epilogue : Barack Obama
Appendix : First fourteen amendments to the United States Constitution.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
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Online version: Arlidge, Anthony. Lawyers who made America. Oxford ; London : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2017
Call Number
KF353 .A75 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781509906369 (hardback alkaline paper)
1509906363 (hardback alkaline paper)
9781509906390 (ePDF)
9781509906383 (ePub)
1509906363 (hardback alkaline paper)
9781509906390 (ePDF)
9781509906383 (ePub)
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