Henry Clay the lawyer /Maurice G. Baxter.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (154 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780813159553
- KF368 .H467 2015
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Legal Scene; 2. Early Practice; 3. Economic Issues; 4. Banking; 5. Nonconstitutional Business; 6. Slavery; 7. Overview; Appendix: Table of Clay's Cases; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor both to the early development of the U.S. legal system and to the interaction between law and politics in pre-Civil War America. During the years of Clay's practice, modern American law was taking shape, building on the English experience but working out the new rules and precedents that a changing and growing society required. Clay specialized in property law, a natural choice at a time of entangled land claims, ill-defined boundaries, and.
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