Ideology and Illusion in Colonial Legal Development
European settlement in North America, and in particular the English
settlements, can only be understood in relation to expectations
created by intellectual structures that pre-existed the experience of
migration. Legal development must therefore be approached through the
understanding of the larger mentality of settlement.
Readings
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Assigned
John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charitie (1630).
Eben Moglen,
Settling the Law (1993), Beginnings, 1664-1691
George Lee Haskins,
Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts (1968), chapters 1 & 2
Suggested
Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939).
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