Description
Explains how America adopted the widely deplored Sedition Act of 1798 and how it undermined the political ideals of the American Revolution.
About the Author
Phillip Blumberg is Dean and Professor Emeritus at University of Connecticut School of Law. After two decades of law practice on Wall Street and leadership as the CEO of a New York Stock Exchange-listed financial corporation, he turned to legal scholarship. He is the country's leading authority on corporate groups and the author of path-breaking books including The Multinational Challenge to Corporation Law and the five-volume treatise Blumberg on Corporate Groups (2nd edition). Six years ago, he became interested in early American jurisprudence; this volume is the result.
Reviews
'Blumberg's great contribution is to put the repressive, politically motivated Sedition Act prosecutions (and related state and common law prosecutions) in the context of a larger set of repressive doctrines and attitudes and to show how they often functioned synergistically to repress political critics.' Michael Kent Curtis, Journal of American History
Book Information
ISBN 9781107613034
Author Phillip I. Blumberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 426
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 560g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm