Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection ... - 9781316614129

Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection ... - 9781316614129

Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of RecollectionAuthor(s): Matthew Crow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316614129, 978-1316614129\nSynopsis\nIn this innovative book, historian Matthew Crow unpacks the legal and political thought of Thomas Jefferson as a tool for thinking about constitutional transformation, settler colonialism, and race and civic identity in the era of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's practices of reading, writing, and collecting legal history grew out of broader histories of early modern empire and political thought. As a result of the peculiar ways in which he theorized and experienced the imperial crisis and revolutionary constitutionalism, Jefferson came to understand a republican constitution as requiring a textual, material culture of law shared by citizens with the cultivated capacity to participate in such a culture. At the center of the story i.

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