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    Distrust of the Legal Establishment in Perspective: Maryland During the Early National Years

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    Author/Creator
    Sawyer, Jeffrey K.
    Type of Work
    40 Pages
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    journal articles
    Citation of Original Publication
    Sawyer, J.K. (1993). Distrust of the Legal Establishment in Perspective: Maryland During the Early National Years. Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 2(1), 1-40.
    Subjects
    american history
    Maryland history
    legal history
    distrust of lawyers
    anti-lawyer sentiment
    legal establishment
    Abstract
    Despising lawyers has been popular for centuries, and knowing when to take it seriously is often difficult. Since the 1640s in England, vicious attacks on lawyers and the common law have occasionally accompanied reform movements. Are these outbursts evidence of a long-term tradition of radical hostility towards the legal establishment? Or do they point to a tradition of political posturing with little real substance? With respect to early America, some very good historians have come to differing conclusions on these questions. Maxwell Bloomfield suggests that, while radical in tone, the attack on lawyers was rooted in essentially middle-class values and was not seriously connected to an ideology of social leveling or egalitarianism. He nevertheless demonstrates elegantly that the anti-lawyer sentiment of the Jacksonian period was part of a longer-term and culturally pervasive pattern. Richard Ellis's work, in partial contrast, documents radical attacks on the legal establishment during the Jeffersonian years, notably in Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Other legal historians have often stressed that fundamentally different conceptions of law, lawyers, judges, juries, and courts shaped the legal politics of Americans in the post-revolutionary years.


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    Robert L. Bogomolny Library
    University of Baltimore
    1420 Maryland Ave.
    Baltimore, MD 21201
    Email: knowledgeworks@ubalt.edu


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.