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The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
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The historical material and resources available for American legal historians is both too much and too little. Hundreds of published case opinions became thousands of opinions by the end of the 1820s, leading lawyers to conclude that no one could know the entirety of the law. Yet this cascade of information is also too little, because the work of treatise writers and magazine editors of the time was ruthlessly focused on then-existing legal concerns.
For these reasons, James L. Haley works within difficult strictures in his book, The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986. Because his story is about …