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Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution - that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances - shaped the legal development of the colonial world.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Constitutional & administrative law

• Full title: Transatlantic Constitution
• Subtitle: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire
• Author: Mary Sarah Bilder
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780674027190
• ISBN: 0674027191
• ID: 04635085
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 536 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 236 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2008

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