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

Offutt, William M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252021525 ISBN 13 : 9780252021527

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 of the records of more than 2,000 civil and 1,100 criminal cases in four county courts over a thirty-year period shows that Quakers--the "Good Men"--were disproportionately represented as justices, officers, and jurors in this system of "Good Laws" they had established, and that they fared better than did the rest of the population in dealing with it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252021525
• ISBN 13: 9780252021527
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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