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This is the standard reader in American law and constitutional development. The selections demonstrate that the legal order, once defined by society, helps in molding the various forces of the social life of that society. The essays cover the entire period of the American experience, from the colonies to postindustrial society. Additions to this enlarged edition include essays by Michael Parrish on the Depression and the New Deal; Abram Chayes on the role of the judge in public law litigation; David Vogel on social regulation; Harry N. Scheiber on doctrinal legacies and institutional innovations in the relation between law and the economy; and Lawrence M. Friedman on American legal history.

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• Preface to the Enlarged Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Part 1 American Legal Culture
• 1 The Law in United States History
• 2 Notes Toward a History of American Justice
• Part 2 Studies in Colonial Law
• 3 King's Law and Local Custom in Seventeenth-Century New England
• 4 The Legal Heritage of Plymouth Colony
• 5 The Politics of Law in Colonial America: Controversies Over Chancery Courts and Equity Law in the Eighteenth Century
• 6 Law and the Enforcement of Morals in Early America
• Part 3 The Revolution and the New Constitutional Order
• 7 Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-Century America
• 8 Federalism and the Constitution: The Original Understanding
• 9 Liberty and the First Amendment: 1790-1800
• Part 4 Law and the Economy in Ante-bellum America
• 10 The Release of Energy
• 11 An Overview of American Land Policy
• 12 Property Law, Expropriation, and Resource Allocation by Government, 1789-1910
• 13 The Transformation in the Conception of Property in American Law, 1780-1860
• 14 The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw
• Part 5 Crime, Criminal Justice, and Violence
• 15 Emerging Notions of Modern Criminal Law in the Revolutionary Era: An Historical Perspective
• 16 Violence and Vigilantism in American History
• 17 Urbanization and Criminal Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Massachusetts as a Test Case
• Part 6 Slavery and the Civil War
• 18 Chattels Personal
• 19 The American Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis
• Part 7 The New Legal Order: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
• 20 The Reconstruction of Federal Judicial Power, 1863-1876
• 21 Justice Field and the Jurisprudence of Government-Business Relations: Some Parameters of Laissez Faire Constitutionalism, 1863-1897
• Part 8 Progressivism and the Law
• 22 Social Change and the Law of Industrial Accidents
• 23 Legal Progressivism, the Courts, and the Crisis of the 1890s
• Part 9 Crime and Social Control in the Twentieth Century
• 24 Behavior Modification in Total Institutions: An Historical Overview
• 25 Urban Crime and Criminal Justice: The Chicago Case
• Part 10 Race Relations and the Law
• 26 Negro Involuntary Servitude in the South, 1865-1940: A Preliminary Analysis
• 27 Moorfield Storey and the Struggle for Equality
• 28 Earl Warren and the Brown Decision
• Part 11 The Bar and the New jurisprudence
• 29 Lawyers and Clients in the Twentieth Century
• 30 American jurisprudence between the Wars: Legal Realism and the Crisis of Democratic Theory
• Part 12 Restructuring the Legal Order: The New Deal Era
• 31 The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the American Legal Order
• Part 13 The Modern Legal Order: Public Law, the New Property, and the Regulatory State
• 32 The New Property
• 33 The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation
• 34 The "New" Social Regulation in Historical and Comparative Perspective
• Part 14 The Study of Constitutional and Legal History
• 35 Doctrinal Legacies and Institutional Innovations: Law and the Economy in American History
• 36 American Legal History: Past and Present
• Notes
• Contributors