Law and People in Colonial America 2/e

Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Revised EditionPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgmentsChapter One. ""That the Said Statutes, Lawes, and Ordinances May Be as Neere as Conveniently May, Agreeable to the Forme of the Lawes and Pollicy of England""Chapter Two. ""And to the End that All Laws Prepared by the Governour and Provincial Council Aforesaid, May Yet Have the More Full Concurrence of the Free-Men of the Province""Chapter Three. ""If I Am Become Their Son, They Must Act the Part of a Father""Chapter Four. ""Take All the Care in Your Power to Guard against Any Further Wicked Designs""Chapter Five. ""These Dirty and Ridiculous Litigations Have Been Multiplied in This Town, Till the Very Earth Groans and the Stones Cry Out""Chapter Six. ""Just so th' Unletter'd Blockheads of the Robe; (Than Whom no Greater Monsters on the Globe); Their Wire-Drawn, Incoherent, Jargon Spin, Or Lug a Point by Head and Shoulders In""Chapter Seven. ""On What Principles, Then, on What Motives of Action, Can We Depend for the Security of our Liberties, of our Properties... of Life Itself?""ConclusionNotesA Bibliographic EssayIndex