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American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: From The Yale Experience, John Henry Schlegel
American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: From The Yale Experience, John Henry Schlegel
Buffalo Law Review
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The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy
The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy
Buffalo Law Review
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David Hoffman And The Shaping Of A Republican Legal Culture, Maxwell Bloomfield
David Hoffman And The Shaping Of A Republican Legal Culture, Maxwell Bloomfield
Scholarly Articles
In recent years scholars have paid increasing attention to the concept of "republicanism" as a measure of cultural change in America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To the Revolutionary generation republicanism connoted most obviously a representative form of government, based upon popular sovereignty and limited in its powers by a written constitution. But republican ideology encompassed far more than the restructuring of political institutions. It called for a regenerated society as well, in which men should be encouraged to pursue their individual destinies with a minimum of interference from public authorities. Civic morality and self-determination were closely …