Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia write by Hugh F. Rankin. This book was released on 1965. Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia
Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia write by Hugh F. Rankin. This book was released on 1965. Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660
Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 write by Bradley Chapin. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the “reception” of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates. In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a “lost period” of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judicial views of how the law was to be administered. He provides social and economic explanations of shifts and peculiarities in the law, using carefully arranged evidence from the records. His treatment of the Quaker cases in Massachusetts and the witchcraft prosecutions in New England throws new light on those frequently misunderstood episodes. Chapin's book will be of interest not only to scholars working in the field but also to anyone curious about early American legal history.
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 write by Rhys Isaac. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.
The Jury in America
The Jury in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jury in America write by Dennis Hale. This book was released on 2016-02-09. The Jury in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting something old: one of the traditional and essential rights of all free men. Judgment by an “impartial jury” would henceforth put citizen panels at the very heart of the American legal order. And yet at the dawn of the 21st century, juries resolve just two percent of the nation’s legal cases and critics warn that the jury is “vanishing” from both the criminal and civil courts. The jury’s critics point to sensational jury trials like those in the O. J. Simpson and Menendez cases, and conclude that the disappearance of the jury is no great loss. The jury’s defenders, from journeyman trial lawyers to members of the Supreme Court, take a different view, warning that the disappearance of the jury trial would be a profound loss. In The Jury in America, a work that deftly combines legal history, political analysis, and storytelling, Dennis Hale takes us to the very heart of this debate to show us what the American jury system was, what it has become, and what the changes in the jury system tell us about our common political and civic life. Because the jury is so old, continuously present in the life of the American republic, it can act as a mirror, reflecting the changes going on around it. And yet because the jury is embedded in the Constitution, it has held on to its original shape more stubbornly than almost any other element in the American regime. Looking back to juries at the time of America's founding, and forward to the fraught and diminished juries of our day, Hale traces a transformation in our understanding of ideas about sedition, race relations, negligence, expertise, the responsibilities of citizenship, and what it means to be a citizen who is “good and true” and therefore suited to the difficult tasks of judgment. Criminal and civil trials and the jury decisions that result from them involve the most fundamental questions of right, and so go to the core of what makes the nation what it is. In this light, in conclusion, Hale considers four controversial modern trials for what they can tell us about what a jury is, and about the fate of republican government in America today.
