America on Trial
Subtitle: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation--From the Salem Witches to the Guantanamo Detainees
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: May 14, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780446520584
First sentence: law inevitable, and the cases and statutes of the colonial period reflect an ongoing attempt to adapt the English legal procedures to the very different realities of American life. The colonists used the law to create a new country, but at the same time they used it to make this country feel more like home.