Banner, Stuart.

The death penalty : an American history.

Cambridge , Mass . : Harvard University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Dustjacket. Very good, clean and unread copy. 385 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780674007512.

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Book number: #157320

Catalogue: Rechtsgeschiedenis USA/History of Law USA

Keywords: RECHT, criminal law

Bartholomew, Robert E. & Anja Reumschüssel.

American intolerance : our dark history of demonizing immigrants.

Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 270 pp. 24 cm Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - This historical review of the US treatment of immigrants and minority groups documents the suspicion and persecution that often met newcomers and those perceived to be different. Contrary to popular belief, the poor and huddled masses were never welcome in America. Though the engraving on the base of the Statue of Liberty makes that claim, history reveals a far less-welcoming message. This comprehensive survey of cultural and racial exclusion in the United States examines the legacy of hostility toward immigrants over two centuries. The authors document abuses against Catholics in the early 19th century in response to the influx of German and Irish immigrants; hostility against Mexicans throughout the Southwest, where signs in bars and restaurants read, No Dogs, No Negros, No Mexicans ; yellow peril fears leading to a ban on Chinese immigration for ten years; punitive measures against Native Americans traditions, which became punishable by fines and hard labor; the persecution of German Americans during World War I and Japanese Americans during World War II; the refusal to admit Jewish refugees of the Holocaust; and the ongoing legacy of mistreating African Americans from slavery to the injustices of the present day. Though the authors note that the United States has accepted tens of millions of immigrants during its relatively short existence, its troubling history of persecution is often overlooked. President Donald Trump's targeting of Muslim and Mexican immigrants is just the most recent chapter in a long, sad history of social panics about evil foreigners who are made scapegoats due to their ethnicity or religious beliefs. ISBN 9781633884489.

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Book number: #291057

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Keywords: POLITICS, immigration studies ìmmigration & refugee law

Chused, Richard H.

Private Acts in Public Places. A social history of divorce in the formative era of American Family law.

Philadelphia,1994. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. viii,234 pp. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Study on divorce in Maryland in the first half of the 19th century. Richard H. Chused examines more than 1300 petitions for divorce in Maryland filed during the first half of the nineteenth century. By weaving together information on the legislative handling of these petitions, the voting patterns of the state legislators, and the judicial treatment of related disputes, Chused shows the connections between politics, regional differences, and the development of American family law. His analysis also provides valuable insights into the social history of the time, a period when traditional Southern family values were at odds with the more modern values brought about by urbanization. ISBN 9780812232028.

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Book number: #61419

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Keywords: RECHT RECHT, divorce

Connolly, Brian.

Domestic intimacies : incest and the liberal subject in nineteenth-century America.

Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 294 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental incest resulting from the severed ties between public and private life, while antislavery writers lamented the ramifications of breaking apart enslaved families. Phrenologists and physiologists established reproduction as the primary motivation of the incest prohibition while naturalizing the incestuous eroticism of sentimental family affection. Ethnographers imagined incest as the norm in so-called primitive societies in contrast to modern civilization. In the absence of clear biological or religious limitations, the young republic developed numerous, varied, and contradictory incest prohibitions. Domestic Intimacies offers a wide-ranging, critical history of incest and its various prohibitions as they were defined throughout the nineteenth century. Historian Brian Connolly argues that at the center of these convergent anxieties and debates lay the idea of the liberal subject: an autonomous individual who acted on his own desires yet was tempered by reason, who enjoyed a life in public yet was expected to find his greatest satisfaction in family and home. Always lurking was the need to exercise personal freedom with restraint; indeed, the valorization of the affectionate family was rooted in its capacity to act as a bulwark against licentiousness. However it was defined, incest was thus not only perceived as a threat to social stability; it also functioned to regulate social relations-within families and between classes as well as among women and men, slaves and free citizens, strangers and friends. Domestic Intimacies overturns conventional histories of American liberalism by placing the fear of incest at the heart of nineteenth-century conflicts over public life and privacy, kinship and individualism, social contracts and personal freedom. ISBN 9780812246216.

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Book number: #279061

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Keywords: SOCIOLOGY, history of law

Corwin, Edward S.

President, Office and Powers, 1787-1948 : history and analysis of practice and opinion.

New York: New York University Press,, 1948. 3rd revised edition. Orig. cloth binding. xix,552 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good.

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Book number: #283608

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Keywords: RECHT, Constitutional law, America

DenBoer, Gordon (ed.)

The documentary history of the first federal elections, 1788-1790. Volume, IV.

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xx, 505p ; 25cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780299121204.

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Book number: #158285

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Dowbiggin, Ian Robert.

A merciful end : the Euthanasia movement in modern America.

Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xix, 250 pp. Ills. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - How did today's debate over euthanasia (taken from the Greek word for ''good death'') become so divisive in American society? In A Merciful End Ian Dowbiggin tells, for the first time, the dramatic story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation''s attitudes towards mercy killing and assisted suicide.Having had access to confidential records in the United States, England and Canada, and having interviewed leading figures in the American euthanasia movement, he reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century, long before Jack Kevorkian began helping patients to die. Over the course of the twentieth century, a group of public-spirited men and women tried to break down ancient Judeo-Christian prohibitions against mercy killing, overturn state lawscriminalizing assisted suicide, and convince the US Supreme Court that there is a right to die in the Constitution. In their eagerness to succeed, these euthanasia advocates have often sanctioned public policies that blur the fine line between choice and duty, freedom and coercion, the rights of theindividual and the needs of society. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, they had won some small victories, and the debate over whose lives were worth living still raged, but Dowbiggin argues that more and more Americans seemed to prefer better end-of-life care to sweeping changes in laws about euthanasia. America''s euthanasia movement entered the twenty-first century ready and willing to fight new wars but facing an uphill battle against sentiments such as these.Original, wide-ranging in scope, but sensitive to the personal dimensions of euthanasia, A Merciful End is an illuminating and cautionary account of the tension between motives and methods within twentieth century social reform. It provides a refreshingly new perspective on an old debate. ISBN 9780195154436,.

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Book number: #298682

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Keywords: HISTORY, philosophy of law

Frederick, David C.

Rugged justice : the ninth circuit court of appeals and the American West, 1891-1941.

Berkeley ; University of California Press,1994. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xiv,331p. Index. Condition : fine. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival sources, including court records and legal papers throughout the West and in Washington, D.C., to document the Ninth Circuit's first fifty years. His findings are much more than a record of the court, however, for they also provide a unique social and cultural history of the West. During these years, the court heard key cases involving railroads, the Alaska gold rush, Chinese immigration, organized labor, and use of natural resources. Many of the decisions from this period foreshadowed issues that are with us today. Frederick also documents the court's part in Western development and in issues relating to World War I, Prohibition, New Deal legislation, and the evolving role of federal judges. Frederick portrays the West's most important judicial institution with clarity and intelligence, reminding us that the evolution of the Ninth Circuit both reflected and affected the dramatic changes occurring in the West during the court's early years. This is a book that will appeal not only to lawyers, but to historians, sociologists, and general readers as well. ISBN 9780520083813.

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Book number: #92270

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Keywords: RECHT, history of law, U.S.A.

Gibson, Marion (ed.).

Witchcraft and society in England and America , 1550-1750.

Ithaca , NY : Cornell University Press, 2003. Paperback. xiii, 270 p. ; 24 cm. Edited by Marion Gibson. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780801488740.

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Book number: #170054

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Keywords: HISTORY, witchcraft, tovenarij, Zauberei history of law

Grossman, Joanna L.

Inside the castle : law and the family in 20th century America.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 443 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-422) and index. Contents : Pt. 1. Tying the knot : marriage and promises to marry -- Marriage and the state -- Marriage, law, and society : a tangled web -- Common-law marriage -- The end of heart balm -- Pt. 2. Anything goes : marriage in a permissive age -- The rise of sexual freedom -- Cohabitation -- Same-sex relationships -- Pt. 3. When the music stops : dissolving a marriage and the aftermath -- Untying the knot : divorce and annulment -- Dollars and sense : the economic consequences of divorce -- Collateral damage : the children of divorce -- Pt. 4. The old and the new generation -- The extended family : elder law and the law of inheritance -- Parents and children : rights and duties -- Who do we belong to? Parentage and the law -- Chosen people : adoption and the law. - Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life. The story of family law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits. This was the century, too, of the sexual revolution and women's liberation, of gay rights and cohabitation. Marriage lost its powerful monopoly over legitimate sexual behavior. Couples who lived together without marriage now had certain rights. Gay marriage became legal in a handful of jurisdictions. By the end of the century, no state still prohibited same-sex behavior. Children in many states could legally have two mothers or two fathers. No-fault divorce became cheap and easy. And illegitimacy lost most of its social and legal stigma. These changes were not smooth or linear--all met with resistance and provoked a certain amount of backlash. Families took many forms, some of them new and different, and though buffeted by the winds of change, the family persisted as a central institution in society. Inside the Castle tells the story of that institution, exploring the ways in which law tried to penetrate and control this most mysterious realm of personal life. ISBN 9780691149820.

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Book number: #275419

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Keywords: HISTORY,

Hall, K.L., Wiecek, W.M. & Finkelman, P.

American legal history : cases and materials.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 2nd edition. Reprint. Paperback, xxiv,610 pp. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780195097641.

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Book number: #178610

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Keywords: RECHT, Constitutional law, America

Kahn, Paul W.

Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xvii,325 pp. illustrations, map. 24 cm. (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered. Paul W. Kahn shows how project and system have long been at work in our theological and philosophical tradition. Against this background, Kahn explains the development of the modern legal imagination in the nineteenth century as a movement from project to system. Americans began the century imagining the constitutional order as their common project: a deliberate construction of We the People. They ended the century imagining that order is continuous with the common law: an immanent development of the principles of civilization. This imaginative shift affected ideas of legal text, sovereignty, citizenship, interpretation, history, and science. ISBN 9780300243413.

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Book number: #298141

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Langran, Robert W.

The Supreme Court : a concise history.

New York : Peter Lang, c2004. Paperback. xiii, 149 pp. illustrations ; 22 cm. (Teaching texts in law and politics, 32). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Contents : Chapter 1 Origins and Operations 1 -- Chapter 2 The Early Days and the Marshall Era 13 -- Chapter 3 The Taney Court 23 -- Chapter 4 The Court and Early Economic Regulation 29 -- Chapter 5 The Court from World War I to the New Deal 39 -- Chapter 6 The New Deal Court 47 -- Chapter 7 World War II to Warren 55 -- Chapter 8 The Warren Years 61 -- Chapter 9 The Burger Court 73 -- Chapter 10 The Rehnquist Years 83 -- Appendix A Federal Courts 133 -- Appendix B Supreme Court Justices 135. ISBN 9780820461625.

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Book number: #294267

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Keywords: RECHT, history of law Supreme Court Constitutional law, America

Owensby, Brian P. & Richard J. Ross (eds.)

Justice in a new world : negotiating legal intelligibility in British, Iberian, and indigenous America.

New York : New York University Press, 2018. Paperback. viii, 330 pp. 23 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World As British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to negotiate their relationship. In order for settlers and natives to learn from, maneuver, resist, or accommodate each other, they had to grasp something of each other's legal ideas and conceptions of justice.This ambitious volume advances our understanding of how natives and settlers in both the British and Iberian New World empires struggled to use the other’s ideas of law and justice as a political, strategic, and moral resource. In so doing, indigenous people and settlers alike changed their own practices of law and dialogue about justice. Europeans and natives appealed to imperfect understandings of their interlocutors’ notions of justice and advanced their own conceptions during workaday negotiations, disputes, and assertions of right. Settlers’ and indigenous peoples’ legal presuppositions shaped and sometimes misdirected their attempts to employ each other’s law. Natives and settlers construed and misconstrued each other's legal commitments while learning about them, never quite sure whether they were on solid ground. Chapters explore the problem of “legal intelligibility”: How and to what extent did settler law and its associated notions of justice became intelligible—tactically, technically and morally—to natives, and vice versa? To address this question, the volume offers a critical comparison between English and Iberian New World empires. Chapters probe such topics as treaty negotiations, land sales, and the corporate privileges of indigenous peoples. Ultimately, Justice in a New World offers both a deeper understanding of the transformation of notions of justice and law among settlers and indigenous people, and a dual comparative study of what it means for laws and moral codes to be legally intelligible. ISBN 9781479807246.

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Book number: #298137

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Reid, John Phillip.

The Authority to tax. (Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 2).

Madison University of Wisconsin Press,1987. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. x,419 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780299112905.

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Book number: #152995

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Keywords: RECHT, Constitutional law, America