Laws Conscience Equitable Constitutionalism by Hoffer Peter (24 results)

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Condition: very good. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,1990. Paperback. xvi,301 pp. Index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780807842942. Keywords : RECHT, Constitutional law, America.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scholarly study of the history & theory of equity and fairness in the law, bookended with new interpretations of the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case, arguing that "it was not the result of modern social or political preferences but instead was deeply rooted in 2,000 years of thinking about law." The author studied under Bernard Bailyn at Harvard and is Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, name/address label on free endsheet; jacket shows minor edgewear, light creases at head of spine. Text clean, no names or marks apart from the label; xiv, [2], 301 pages; index, notes, note on sources. Scarce in hardcover. Size: Octavo.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Law's Conscience | Equitable Constitutionalism in America | Peter Charles Hoffer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2001 | The University of North Carolina Press | EAN 9780807842942 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Law's Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor's court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Peter Hoffer argues that equity embodies a way of looking at law, including constitutions, based on ideas of mutual fairness, public trusteeship, and equal protection. His central theme is the tension between the ideal of equity and the actual availability of equitable remedies.Hoffer examines this tension in the trusteeship constitutionalism of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson; the incorporation of equity in the first American constitutions; the antebellum controversy over slavery; the fortunes of the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War; the emergence of the doctrine of 'Balance of Equity' in twentieth-century public-interest law; and the desegregation and reverse discrimination cases of the past thirty-five years. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was the most important equity suit in American history, and Hoffer begins and ends his book with a new interpretation of its lessons.…