Of Good Laws and Good Men: Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710

by William M. Offutt and William M. Offuitt

William Offutt, Jr., places legal processes at the center of this regions social history. The new societies established there in the late 1600s did not rely on religious conformity, culture, or a simple majority to develop successfully, Offutt maintains. Rather, they succeeded because of the implementation of reforms that gave the expanding population faith in the legitimacy of legal processes implemented by a Quaker elite. Offutt's painstaking investigation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252021525
• ISBN13: 9780252021527
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"