Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia, Հատոր 2

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Michael G. Chiorazzi, Marguerite Most
Psychology Press, 2005 - 1564 էջ
Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States

Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the underlying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this unique publication, a state expert compiles each chapter using his or her own style, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative.

In Prestatehood Legal Materials, you will find bibliographies, references, and discussion on a varied list of source materials, including:
  • state codes drafted by Congress
  • county, state, and national archives
  • journals and digests
  • state and federal reports, citations, surveys, and studies
  • books, manuscripts, papers, speeches, and theses
  • town and city records and documents
  • Web sites to help your search for more information
  • and more
Prestatehood Legal Materials provides you with brief overviews of state histories from colonization to acceptance into the United States. In this book, you will see how foreign countries controlled the laws of these territories and how these states eventually broke away to govern themselves. The text also covers the legal issues with Native Americans, inter-state and the Mexico and Canadian borders, and the development of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government.

This guide focuses on materials that are readily available to historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and researchers. Resources that assist in locating not-so-easily accessible materials are also covered. Special sections focus on the legal resources of colonial New York City and Washington, DC--which is still technically in its prestatehood stage. Due to the enormity of this project, the editor of Prestatehood Legal Materials created a Web page where updates, corrections, additions and more will be posted.

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Constitution and the Transition to Statehood
14
Alaska Prestatehood Legal Research Resources
31
Archival Collections
40
Bibliography
51
Arkansas Law Before Statehood
99
General Research Note 898
112
State Constitution 666
127
56
140
Bibliography of Iowa Territory Historical Materials
407
A Selected
409
Territorial Period 18541861
417
Bibliography of Kansas Legal History Resources
429
Bibliography of Legal Materials
433
Legislation
439
Executive and Administrative Records
451
Preterritorial Documents 882
454

The Beginnings 901
143
A Guide to Connecticut Prestatehood
161
Indian Territory 903
165
Executive Sources
168
Judicial Branch 668
173
Colonial Delaware Legal Bibliography
175
Colonial Records Project 837
181
Oklahoma Territory 919
192
The Legal History of the District of Columbia
219
South Carolina Prestatehood Legal
220
History of the Courts in the District of Columbia
228
Legal Developments Leading to Statehood 1323
232
Tracking Down Legal Sources
249
Territory of Florida 18211845
255
Governors 1361
261
Georgia Prestatehood Legal Research
277
Hawaii Prestatehood Legal Materials
287
Provisional Government January 17 1893 to July 3 1894
303
Officers and Agencies 1363
314
Selected Federal Acts Relating to Statehood
324
Frontier Justice in the Territory of Idaho
331
Legislative Branch 677
333
Secondary Sources
340
Introduction 703
347
Illinois Legal Research Before Statehood
349
Illinois in the Northwest Territory from 1787 to 1809
355
Indiana Prestatehood Legal Materials
365
PreWyoming Territory 1396
370
Index 1415
377
Iowa Territory Legal Materials
387
Judicial Branch Territory Materials
393
Executive Branch Territory Materials
401
Statehood
457
The Drive for Statehood 980
458
A Bibliographic Survey of Sources
463
General Works 991
465
Maine Prestatehood Legal Materials
481
The District of Maine 16911820
489
Maryland Prestatehood Legal Materials
501
Executive Branch 994
502
Judicial Branch
511
Biography 1010
517
Legislative Branch
518
Secondary Sources 1014
524
Executive Branch
527
Dutch Rule 795
535
Colonial Massachusetts Legal Resources
539
Secondary and Bibliographical Sources
551
Online Resources
559
The Northwest Territories 17871805
569
Utah Courts 1252
578
Minnesota Legal Materials from Wilderness
581
Minnesota Prestatehood Documents
588
Mississippi 16991817
603
Charters 821
610
Bourbon County Georgia 17851796
611
Courts 828
621
The State of Mississippi 1817
622
Missouri Prestatehood Legal Materials
631
Territorial Codes and Digests
637
Session Laws
649
Other Prestatehood Legal Materials
655
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