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" Common law and natural law in America : "
Andrew Forsyth, Yale University.
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839689
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Forsyth, Andrew,1984-
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Common law and natural law in America : : from the Puritans to the legal realists /\ Andrew Forsyth, Yale University.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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Law and Christianity
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1 online resource (xv, 156 pages)
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110857677X
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: 1108701817
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: 9781108701815
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: 9781108752978
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110847697X
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9781108476973
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral -Yale University, 2017).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Puritan natural law: early New England and the colonial colleges; 2. Modern natural law: revolutionaries and republicans; 3. Organizing common law: William Blackstone in America; 4. subsuming natural law into common law: Joseph Story; 5. Law as science: Christopher Columbus Langdell; 6. Breaking with natural law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the legal realists; Epilogue; Index.
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"Speaking to today's flourishing conversations on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law, politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American interactions of 'common law', the stuff of courtrooms, and 'natural law', a law built on human reason, nature, and the mind or will of God. It offers a counter-narrative to the dominant story of common law and natural law by drawing widely from theological and philosophical accounts of natural law, as well as primary and secondary work in legal and intellectual history. With consequences for today's natural-law proponents and critics alike, it explores the thought of the Puritans, Revolutionary Americans, and seminal legal figures including William Blackstone, Joseph Story, Christopher Columbus Langdell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the legal realists"--
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Common law-- United States-- History.
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Jurisprudence-- United States-- History.
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Law-- Study and teaching-- United States-- History.
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Natural law-- Influence.
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Common law.
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Jurisprudence.
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LAW-- Essays.
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LAW-- General Practice.
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LAW-- Jurisprudence.
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LAW-- Paralegals Paralegalism.
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LAW-- Practical Guides.
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LAW-- Reference.
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Law-- Study and teaching.
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Natural law-- Influence.
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United States.
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340/.1120973
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KF380.F67 2019
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