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Subject(s)

• Clay, Henry 1777-1852 [Browse]
• Lawyers—United States—Biography [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government—1815-1861 [Browse]

Summary note

Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor both to the early development of the U.S. legal system and to the interaction between law and politics in pre-Civil War America.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133) and index.

Contents

• The Legal Scene
• Early Practice
• Economic Issues
• Banking
• Nonconstitutional Business
• Slavery
• Table of Clay's Cases.

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Project Muse UPCC books

ISBN

0813121477 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99032612^

OCLC

41482263

RCP

H - O

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