Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Legal History's Pathfinder: The Quest of John Phillip Reid Chapter 3 In a Defiant Stance Chapter 4 John Phillip Reid and the Reinterpretation of the American Revolution Chapter 5 Leadership in Colonial and Revolutionary America Chapter 6 The Irish Articles of Religion and the Fall of the Stuart Monarchies Chapter 7 Underreported and Underrrated: The Court of Common Pleas in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 8 The English High Judiciary and the Politics of the Habeas Corpus Bill of 1758 Chapter 9 A Constitutional Middle-Ground Between Revision and Revolution: A Reevaluation of the Nullification Crisis and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions through the Lens of Popular Sovereignty Chapter 10 Law and Regulation in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Chapter 11 An Inversion Layer in Western Legal History: Air Pollution in Butte, Montana Chapter 12 Wives as Favorites Chapter 13 Government Power as a Tool for Redistributing Wealth in Twentieth-Century New York Chapter 14 From a Reidian Perspective Chapter 15 The Writings of John Phillip Reid, 1959-2000 Chapter 16 List of Contributors Chapter 17 Index

About the Author

Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. William E. Nelson is Joel S. and Anne B. Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.