Commodity & Propriety : Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence.
Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside...
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1997
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Table of Contents:
- Commodity & Propriety; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Civic Republican Culture,1776-1800; Prologue: Legal Writing in the Civic Republican Era; 1 Thomas Jefferson and the Civic Conception of Property; 2 Time, History, and Property in the Republican Vision; 3 Descent and Dissent from the Civic Meaning of Property; Part Two: The Commercial Republican Culture, 1800-1860; Prologue: Legal Writing in the Commercial Republican Era; 4 "Liberality" vs. "Technicality": Statutory Revision of Land Law in the Jacksonian Age; 5 James Kent and the Ambivalent Romance of Commerce.
- 6 Antebellum Statutory Law Reform Revisited: The Married Women's Property Laws7 Ambiguous Entrepreneurialism: The Rise and Fall of Vested Rights in the Antebellum Era; 8 Commodifying Humans: Property in the Antebellum Legal Discourse of Slavery; Part Three: The Industrial Culture, 1870-1917; Prologue: Legal Writing in the Age of Enterprise; 9 The Dilemma of Property in Public Law during the Age of Enterprise: Power an.
