Reason over precedents : origins of American legal thought
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Reason over precedents : origins of American legal thought
（Contributions in legal studies, no. 73）
Greenwood Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This legal and intellectual history shows how the education of American lawyers between 1779 and 1829 manifested a unique and distinct process of legal thought into the United States. This new American legal thought, based upon ideas imported from the works of European natural law writers, had a significant impact on the creation of a distinctly American legal system and was, and continues to be, instrumental in shaping American society.
Table of Contents
American Institutional Legal Education and the Instillment of a Dynamic Conception of Law, 1779-1829 St. George Tucker and the Influence of Blackstone's Commentaries on American Legal Education Analytical Law Treatises and the Advent of American Legal Methodology The Redaction of a Modified Doctrine of Stare Decisis into American Legal Practice: 1782-1830 The Effect of a Uniquely American Legal Thought on the Americanization of Law Appendixes: St. George Tucker's Reading List for Law Students at the College of William and Mary Proprietary Law Schools Founded Prior to 1830 with Biographical Information About Instructors and Graduates Statistical Data and Graphs Indicating the Impact of Proprietary Law Schools on the American Bar and Judiciary List of American Analytical Law Treatises Published Between 1794 and 1826 Table of Cases Bibliography Index
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