Laws Imagined Republic by Steven Wilf PAPERBACK 9780521145282

Laws Imagined Republic\nby Steven Wilf\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Steven Wilf\nTitle: Laws Imagined Republic\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Criminal law: procedure and offences\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780521145282\nISBN-10: 0521145287\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLaw''s Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance against England, the proliferation of revolutionary legal language became intimately intertwined with politics. Drawing on a.