Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution

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Why were Federalists at the 1787 Philadelphia convention — ostensibly called to revise the Articles of Confederation — so intent on scrapping the old system and drawing up a completely new frame of government?In Redeeming the Republic, Roger Brown focuses on state public-policy issues to show how recurrent outbreaks of popular resistance to tax crackdowns forced state governments to retreat from taxation, propelling elites into support for the constitutional revol… More >>

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Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity of Law

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Written in a clear and accessible style, this new text provides a broader concept of comparative law, placing national laws in the wider context of legal traditions. All major legal traditions of the world are covered. The scope and clarity of this work will make it essential reading for students and practitioners of transnational law alike. In 1998 it won the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law…. More >>

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Conflict of Laws

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Authoritative text deals with interstate and international private litigation, business planning, estate planning, and administration. The text introduces the development and current state of approaches to choice of law. Provides the basics for determining applicable law. Reviews jurisdiction, its limitations, and its special problems. Discusses marriage, property, dissolution, and adoption. Also covers torts, contracts, succession, trusts, probate, corporations, an… More >>

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