Remaking custom [electronic resource] : law and identity in the early American Republic / Ellen Holmes Pearson.
Material type: TextSeries: Jeffersonian AmericaPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: xi, 251 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 349.73 22
- KF366 .P43 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- America's common law : custom, choice, and history lessons -- American constitutions and American character -- Property acquisition and inheritance -- The question of slavery in the New Republic -- Public lands, expansion, and the Native Americans -- Custom, the written law, and American legal treatises -- Conclusion.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.