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E Pluribus Unum : How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776 by William Edward Nelson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book examines the role of the common law in the life and politics of Great Britain’s North American colonies from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775–76. The main theme of the book is that when the different colonies were initially founded, they followed very different law—typically not the common law of England. But over the course of the seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century, the colonies all received the common law, with the result that by the 1750s the common law constituted the foundation of every colony’s law and every colony’s political system. Some of the colonies adopted the common law because of pressure from the Crown to do so, but others turned to the common law because of socioeconomic pressures on the ground. During the more than century-long process of reception, the common law gradually changed, and thus, what was on the ground in 1776 was not identical to the common law of England. Rather, it was a body of rules that would constitute a foundation for an Americanized version of the common law.

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Author

William Edward Nelson

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190880804

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Law, Humanities