Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
(Part of the The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought Series)
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While the United States was founded on abstract principles of certain "unalienable rights," its legal traditions are based in British common law, a fact long decried by progressive reformers. Common law, the complaint goes, ignores abstract rights principles in favor of tradition, effectively denying equality to large segments of the population. The nineteenth-century women's rights movement embraced this argument, claiming that common law...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801885523
ISBN13:9780801885525
Release Date:April 2007
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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