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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection : The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795
Title
Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection : The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795 / Linda Myrsiades.
ISBN
9780820366272
Publication
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection examines the legal context in which the Whiskey Rebellion was situated, with an eye towards how it was constructed both in the jurisprudence of the courts and in the vernacular ideology of popular dissent. The rationale for such a study lies in the connection between the 1790s and today and the prospect that the innovative experiment represented by U. S. democracy might die, which made the insurrection a crucible for testing the new nation's Constitution and laws and the government they established.?Extending its understanding of legal culture beyond established courts, the study expands materials treating the rebel contribution to legal culture by examining assembly speeches, petitions, and popular courts as well as street politics and propaganda to allow us to balance rebel, government, and judicial perspectives"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 01, 2024
Contents
Government narrative and its "Western experiment"
Federal, state, and popular law in the Western Country
Culture of resistance and its agitation-propaganda
Judges and grand jury charges
The trials, 1795
A rebel defense
An afterword.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
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