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Seward's Law

Name: Seward's Law
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9781501767333
Price: 19672 HUF
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Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery

Szerző: Peter Charles Hoffer

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Cornell University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Peter Charles Hoffer

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2023

oldal

210

EAN

9781501767333

Enbook ID

41591737

Kiadó

Cornell University Press

Súly

Méretek

152 x 229

Teljes leírás

In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights—a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had ties to Seward's career as a country lawyer. Despite his rise to prominence, and indeed preeminence, as a US secretary of state, Seward's country-lawyer mentality endured throughout his life, as evinced in his personal attitudes and professional conduct. Relational rights, identified and termed here for the first time by Hoffer, are communal and reciprocal, what everyone owed to every other member of their community. Such rights are at the center of a jurisprudential outlook that arises directly from living in a village. Though Seward was limited by the Victorian mores and the racialist presumptions of his day, the concept of relational rights that animated him was the natural antithesis to the theories and practices of slavery. In the legal regime underpinning the institution, masters owed nothing to their bondmen and women, while those enslaved unconditionally owed life and labor to their masters. The irrepressible conflict was, for Seward, jurisprudential as well as moral and political. Hoffer's leading assumption in Seward's Law is that a lifetime spent as a lawyer influences how a person responds to everyday challenges. Seward remained a country lawyer at heart, and that fact defined the course of his political career.