Controlling the Law

by John Phillip Reid

In today's courtroom, the jurors evaluate the evidence and pronounce the verdict while the judge has final authority in interpreting the law--but it was not always so. In colonial America, the jurors enjoyed a much greater say. Legal historian John Phillip Reid recounts how the judges gained their modern authority in the early nineteenth century by instituting courtroom practices modeled on the English "common law" judicial system.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803210
• ISBN13: 9780875803210
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher