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Colony to empire : episodes in American legal history
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- Creator
- George Dargo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Clark, N.J. : Lawbook Exchange, 2012
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 363 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1616191449, 9781616191443, 1616191457, 9781616191450
- OCLC
- ocn743432786
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The legal rights of early Americans -- Religious toleration and its limits in early America -- The condition of the colonial press -- Politics in late colonial America -- Law in the early republic -- Louisiana's first civil law digest -- Edward Livingston and the New Orleans Batture -- Steamboats and tugboats on the Mississippi -- The Sarah Roberts case and the origins of "separate but equal" -- The great Red Scare of 1920 -- Sunday blue laws and the kosher market -- The "commonwealth" of Puerto Rico in American law