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Building a Revolutionary State

The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2018
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-54401-4 (ISBN)
27,95 inkl. MwSt
How does a state function during the collapse of institutions that revolutions bring? Pashman answers that in the case of New York during and after the Revolutionary War, showing how a new state was built on the fly.
How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed under the period’s disorder. Yet by the end of the war, Americans managed to rebuild their courts and legislatures, imbuing such institutions with an authority that was widely respected. This remarkable transformation came about in unexpected ways. Howard Pashman here studies the surprising role played by property redistribution—seizing it from Loyalists and transferring it to supporters of independence—in the reconstruction of legal order during the Revolutionary War.

Building a Revolutionary State looks closely at one state, New York, to understand the broader question of how legal structures emerged from an insurgency. By examining law as New Yorkers experienced it in daily life during the war, Pashman reconstructs a world of revolutionary law that prevailed during America’s transition to independence. In doing so, Pashman explores a central paradox of the revolutionary era: aggressive enforcement of partisan property rules actually had stabilizing effects that allowed insurgents to build legal institutions that enjoyed popular support. Tracing the transformation from revolutionary disorder to legal order, Building a New Revolutionary State gives us a radically fresh way to understand the emergence of new states.

Howard Pashman is an associate attorney at Karlin Associates, LLC in Chicago. He was a research fellow at the Indiana University Center on the Global Legal Profession.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Beginnings, 1500-1900
Zusatzinfo 2 halftones, 1 table
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-226-54401-X / 022654401X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-54401-4 / 9780226544014
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