The making of Tocqueville's America : law and association in the early United States
2015
367.973 B988 2015
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Title
The making of Tocqueville's America : law and association in the early United States
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Description
viii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
367.973 B988 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)904413575
Note
Contents: Part I. The concept of membership in America, 1783-1815 -- Friendship, formalities, and membership in post-revolutionary America -- Politics, citizenship, and association -- A common law of membership -- Part II. Practices and limits, 1800-1840 -- Everyday constitutionalism in a nation of joiners -- When shareholders were members : the business corporation as voluntary association -- Determining the rights of members -- Part III. Consequences : civil society in antebellum America -- Labor unions and an American law of membership -- Conclusion : the concept of membership in the age of reform.
Society of the Cincinnati mentioned throughout the text (criticism, defense & founding).
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Society of the Cincinnati mentioned throughout the text (criticism, defense & founding).
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