Heretics in the temple
Subtitle: Americans who reject the Nation's legal faith
By: David Ray Papke.
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Philosophy -- History; Effectiveness and validity of law -- United States -- History; Critical legal studies -- United States; Culture and law
Description: Americans seem increasingly disenchanted with their legal system. In the wake of several high-profile trials, America's faith in legal authority appears profoundly shaken.

And yet, as David Ray Papke shows in this dramatic and erudite tour of American history, many Americans have challenged and often rejected the rule of law since the earliest days of the country's founding.

Papke traces the lineage of such legal heretics from nineteenth-century activists William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Eugene Debs up to more recent radicals such as the Black Panther Party and to the contemporary rejection of legal authority by various militia and anti-abortion movements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index.