HIST3834
HIST 3834 - Law in American Life, Colonial Era to Civil War (3 Cr.)
History Department (10968)
TCLA - College of Liberal Arts
HIST 3834 - Law in American Life, Colonial Era to Civil War (3 Cr.)
Course description
Understandings of law/property held by colonists, Indians. Conceptions of relationships among family, community, state held in colonial America; conceptions held today. Law of slavery in colonial era. American Revolution/Constitution. Law, industrialization. Legal legitimacy, federalism, Civil War as constitutional crisis.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
AFV - A-F or Audit
Lecture