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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501726088
035 _a(DE-B1597)503440
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHoffer, Peter Charles
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Clamor of Lawyers :
_bThe American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession /
_cPeter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (204 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction: A Lawyers’ Revolution --
_tChapter 1. “The Worst Instrument of Arbitrary Power” --
_tChapter 2. “The Alienation of the Affection of the Colonies” --
_tChapter 3. “My Dear Countrymen Rouse Yourselves” --
_tChapter 4. “A Right Which Nature Has Given to All Men” --
_tChapter 5. “That These Colonies Are . . . Free and Independent States” --
_tConclusion: The Legacy of the Lawyers’ American Revolution --
_tNotes --
_tA Note on Sources --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that key protagonists in the story of American independence were members of the bar with extensive practices. The American Revolution was, in fact, a lawyers’ revolution.Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer broaden our understanding of the role that lawyers played in framing and resolving the British imperial crisis. The revolutionary lawyers, including John Adams’s idol James Otis, Jr., Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson, and Virginians Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with Adams and others, deployed the skills of their profession to further the public welfare in challenging times. They were the framers of the American Revolution and the governments that followed. Loyalist lawyers and lawyers for the crown also participated in this public discourse, but because they lost out in the end, their arguments are often slighted or ignored in popular accounts. This division within the colonial legal profession is central to understanding the American Republic that resulted from the Revolution.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aLaw
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aLawyers
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 4 _aLegal History & Studies.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).
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653 _aAdams, Dickinson, Jefferson, Otis, Galloway, American Revolution, Legal history, Constitutions, Lawyers, Intellectual history.
700 1 _aHoffer, Williamjames Hull
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501726088?locatt=mode:legacy
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