Author: Thomas JarmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A Treatise on Wills
Author: Thomas JarmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures and the Contracts Relating Thereto
Author: Joseph ChittyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial law
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
The Development of American Citizenship, 1608-1870
Author: James H. KettnerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
he concept of citizenship that achieved full legal form and force in mid-nineteenth-century America had English roots in the sense that it was the product of a theoretical and legal development that extended over three hundred years. This prize-winning volume describes and explains the process by which the cirumstances of life in the New World transformed the quasi-medieval ideas of seventeenth-century English jurists about subjectship, community, sovereignty, and allegiance into a wholly new doctrine of "volitional allegiance." The central British idea was that subjectship involved a personal relationship with the king, a relationship based upon the laws of nature and hence perpetual and immutable. The conceptual analogue of the subject-king relationship was the natural bond between parent and child. Across the Atlantic divergent ideas were taking hold. Colonial societies adopted naturalization policies that were suited to practical needs, regardless of doctrinal consistency. Americans continued to value their status as subjects and to affirm their allegiance to the king, but they also moved toward a new understanding of the ties that bind individuals to the community. English judges of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries assumed that the essential purpose of naturalization was to make the alien legally the same as a native, that is, to make his allegiance natural, personal, and perpetual. In the colonies this reasoning was being reversed. Americans took the model of naturalization as their starting point for defining all political allegiance as the result of a legal contract resting on consent. This as yet barely articulated difference between the American and English definition of citizenship was formulated with precision in the course of the American Revolution. Amidst the conflict and confusion of that time Americans sought to define principles of membership that adequately encompassed their ideals of individual liberty and community security. The idea that all obligation rested on individual volition and consent shaped their response to the claims of Parliament and king, legitimized their withdrawal from the British empire, controlled their reaction to the loyalists, and underwrote their creation of independent governments. This new concept of citizenship left many questions unanswered, however. The newly emergent principles clashed with deep-seated prejudices, including the traditional exclusion of Indians and Negroes from membership in the sovereign community. It was only the triumph of the Union in the Civil War that allowed Congress to affirm the quality of native and naturalized citizens, to state unequivocally the primacy of the national over state citizenship, to write black citizenship into the Constitution, and to recognize the volitional character of, the status of citizen by formally adopting the principle of expatriation.-->
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society
Author: Law Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
A Catalogue of Law Books, Including All the Reports in the Various Courts of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Author: StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Bibliotheca legum
Author: Stevens and Haynes, firm, law booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Nationality: Or, The Law Relating to Subjects and Aliens, Considered with a View to Future Legislation
Author: Sir Alexander James Edmund CockburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Mechanics of Internationalism
Author: Martin H. GeyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199202389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This collection of essays by American and European scholars traces the origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society in the nineteenth century. It offers a fresh approach to the study of international history by looking at the structural prerequisites of the thriving internationalism before the First World War. Thus it links political and social movements trying to reform society and politics by way of transnational co-operation with the process of internationalizing cultural, political, and economic practices. The volume is less concerned with classical diplomatic history than with the increased, yet ambivalent, transnational linking of societies. The subjects covered range from the creation of international standards, the search for a monarchical international, and the making of international women's organizations to the emergence of fashionable meeting places. The book provides a genuine historical perspective on present phenomena.
An Analytical Digest of the Reports of Cases Decided in the Courts of Common Law and Equity, of Appeal and Nisi Prius and in the Ecclesiastical Courts in the Year ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A Catalogue of Modern Law Books, Including All the Reports in England, Scotland, and Ireland. MS. Notes
Author: Henry George STEVENS (and HAYNES (Robert William))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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