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A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law.

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An interesting perspective and one well worth discussing with students. I have found this work to be enormously instructive while teaching. -- Lauren Bowen Law and Politics Book Review 2008

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Context in the Constitutional Order
Part I: The Rise of Rights
1. Codification of the Common Law Considered
2. Abstracting Rights
3. The Married Women's Property Acts: Death Blow to Coverture?
Part II: Lingering Status
4. The Married Women's Property Acts: Collaborating for Coverture
5. The Domesticity of the Domestic Relations
6. Common Law Lost
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 18/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9780801885525, 978-0801885525
      ISBN10: 0801885523

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law.

      Trade Review
      An interesting perspective and one well worth discussing with students. I have found this work to be enormously instructive while teaching. -- Lauren Bowen Law and Politics Book Review 2008

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Context in the Constitutional Order
      Part I: The Rise of Rights
      1. Codification of the Common Law Considered
      2. Abstracting Rights
      3. The Married Women's Property Acts: Death Blow to Coverture?
      Part II: Lingering Status
      4. The Married Women's Property Acts: Collaborating for Coverture
      5. The Domesticity of the Domestic Relations
      6. Common Law Lost
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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