TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baxter,Maurice G.
TI  - Henry Clay the lawyer /Maurice G. Baxter
SN  - 9780813159553
AV  - KF368 .H467 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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