Dismantling American Common Law: Liberty and Justice in Our Transformed Courts

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Lexington Books, 2007 - 169 páginas
Dismantling American Common Law provides new insights into the political implications and philosophical origins of the American common law tradition, the importance of which has largely been ignored by the political science community.

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Defining the Common Law and Surveying the Literature
1
Debating the Common Law in America
15
An Evaluation of the Factors that Have Led to the Dismantling
37
The Decline in the Use of Juries
57
Equity Sovereign Immunity and Consequences
77
Montesquieu as the Intellectual Forerunner
109
Conclusion
153
Bibliography
159
Index
167
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Kyle Scott is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Florida.

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