Common Law and Natural Law in America

by Andrew Forsyth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110847697X
• ISBN13: 9781108476973
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 9.2"