TY  - GEN
T1  - Wisconsin and the shaping of American law
A1  - Ranney, Joseph A., 1952-
LA  - English
PP  - Madison, Wisconsin
PB  - The University of Wisconsin Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1004550574
AB  - "State laws affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives--our safety, personal relationships, and business dealings--but receive less scholarly attention than federal laws and courts. [The author] looks at how state laws have evolved and shaped American history, through the lens of the historically influential state of Wisconsin. Organized around periods of social need and turmoil, the book considers the role of states as legal laboratories in establishing American authority west of the Appalachians, in both implementing and limiting Jacksonian reforms and in navigating legal crises before and during the Civil War--including Wisconsin's invocation of sovereignty to defy federal fugitive slave laws. [The author] also surveys judicial revolts, the reforms of the Progressive era, and legislative responses to struggles for civil rights by immigrants, women, Native Americans, and minorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since the 1960s, battles have been fought at the state level over such issues as school vouchers, voting, and abortion rights."--
OP  - 309
CN  - KFW2478 .R355 2017eb
SN  - 0299312437
SN  - 9780299312435
SN  - 0299312402
SN  - 9780299312404
KW  - Law : Wisconsin : History.
KW  - Law : United States : States : History.
KW  - Droit : Wisconsin : Histoire.
KW  - Droit : États-Unis : États : Histoire.
KW  - LAW : Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
KW  - Law
KW  - Law : U.S. states
KW  - United States
KW  - Wisconsin
KW  - History
ER  -