HIST3834

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HIST 3834 - Law in American Life, Colonial Era to Civil War (3 Cr.)

History Department (10968) TCLA - College of Liberal Arts

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

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