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Americanization of the Common Law remains one of the standard works on the transformation of law in America from the late colonial period to the end of the earl

In a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, William Nelson argues that the fourteenth amendment was written t

Law and society are closely related, though the relationship between the two is both complicated and understudied. In a world of rapidly changing people, places

“I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Ex

In E Pluribus Unum, eminent legal historian William E. Nelson shows that the colonies' gradual embrace of the common law was instrumental to the establishment o