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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521519950
• ISBN13: 9780521519953
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"