Henry Clay the Lawyer

Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) 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. During the years of Clay's practice, modern American law was taking shape, building on the English experience but working out the new rules and precedents that a changing and growing society required. Clay speciali

• | Author: Maurice G. Baxter
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0813121477
• | ISBN-13: 9780813121475