Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism

by Kunal M. Parker

Book Overview

This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a species of politics. Thus viewed, the activity of unelected, common law judges appears to be an encroachment on the space of democracy. However, Kunal M...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110761435X
• ISBN13: 9781107614352
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"