John Marshall's Law - Interpretation, Ideology, and Interest

Challenges liberal and conservative views about John Marshall's jurisprudence and redefines him as a political pragmatist and republican revisionist.

List of contents

Introduction
Law and Language in Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence
John Marshall and the Interpretive Enterprise
John Marshall as Republican
Property, Contracts, and the Politics of Interest
Dilemmas of Liberal Constitutionalism: Joseph Story and John Marshall
Marshall's Law on Circuit
Cases Cited
Bibliography
Index

About the author

THOMAS C. SHEVORY is Assistant Professor of Politics at Ithaca College. He has contributed articles to The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and Political Mythology and Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 1987).

Product details

• Authors: Thomas C. Shevory, Shevory Thomas
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.1994
• EAN: 9780313268045
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26804-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Contributions in Legal Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, LAW / Civil Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, Private or civil law: general, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Private / Civil law: general works, Politics, Law, and Government: Law