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Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

Institutional and Individual Styles

By: William D. Popkin

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Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

Institutional and Individual Styles

By: William D. Popkin

In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial authority to the external public, yet within a professional legal culture that requires opinions to develop judicial law through particular institutional and individual judicial styles. Tracing the history of judicial opinion from its roots in English common law, Popkin documents a general shift from unofficially reported oral opinions, to semi-official reports, to the U.S. Supreme Court's adoption in the early nineteenth century of generally unanimous opinions. While this institutional base was firmly established by the twentieth century, Popkin suggests that the modern U.S. judicial opinion has reverted—in some respects—to one in which each judge expresses an individual point of view. Ultimately, he concludes that a shift from an authoritative to a more personal and exploratory individual style of writing opinions is consistent with a more democratic judicial institution.

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NYU Press

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0814767494

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9780814767498

Statutes in Court

The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation

By: William D. Popkin

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The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation

By: William D. Popkin

A history of the discretion accorded U.S. judges in interpreting legislation (from the Revolution to the present), culminating in the author's own theory of the proper scope of judicial discretion.

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Duke University Press

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0822323281

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9780822323280

Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

By: William H. Sewell Jr.

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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

By: William H. Sewell Jr.

William H. Sewell, Jr. turns to the experience of commercial capitalism to show how the commodity form abstracted social relations. The increased independence, flexibility, and anonymity of market relations made equality between citizens not only conceivable but attractive. Commercial capitalism thus found its way into the interstices of this otherwise rigidly hierarchical society, coloring social relations and paving the way for the establishment of civic equality"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022677046X

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9780226770468

Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies

The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802

By: William S. Cormack

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Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies

The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802

By: William S. Cormack

Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies examines the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. The arrival of tricolour cockades - badges showing support for the French Revolution - and news from Paris in 1789 undermined the royal governors' authority, unleashed bitter conflict between white factions, and encouraged the aspirations of free people of colour to equality and black slaves to freedom. This book provides a detailed narrative of the shifting political developments, and analyses the roles of planter resentment of metropolitan control, social and racial tensions, and the ambiguity of revolutionary principles in a colonial setting. Recent scholarship has tended to over-emphasize the colonies' agency, and to accentuate the conflict between masters and slaves, while downplaying metropolitan influences. In contrast, this study seeks to restore the importance of destabilizing political struggles between white factions. It argues that metropolitan news, ideas, language, and political culture - the "revolutionary script" from France - played a key role in shaping the revolution in the colonies.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487503954

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9781487503956

Statutes in Court

The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation

By: William D. Popkin

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The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation

By: William D. Popkin

A history of the discretion accorded U.S. judges in interpreting legislation (from the Revolution to the present), culminating in the author's own theory of the proper scope of judicial discretion.

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Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

Institutional and Individual Styles

By: William D. Popkin

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Institutional and Individual Styles

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Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

Statutes in Court

Statutes in Court

Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies

Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies

Statutes in Court

Statutes in Court

Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

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