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The Creation of mon Law, 1850–1880
Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship
This book is parative study of American legal development in
the mid-eenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, sup-
ported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the
crucial formative moment in the development of an American system
mon law in northern and southern courts. The process of le-
gal development and the form that the basic analytical categories of
American law came to have are explained as the products of different
responses to the challenge of new industrial technologies, particularly
railroads. The nature of those responses was dictated by the ideolo-
gies that panied the social, political, and economic orders of the
two regions. mon law, ultimately, is found to express an
emerging model of citizenship, appropriate to modern conditions. As a
result, the process of legal development provides an illuminating per-
spective on the character of American political thought in a formative
period of the nation.
Howard pleted his undergraduate studies at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and received a . from the University of
Washington in 1989. He practiced law for several years, primarily in San
Francisco, then returned to academic pursuits, earning an . in his-
tory from the University of Chicago in 1994 and a . in government
from Cornell University in 1999. Since that time, he has taught in the
Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He is the author of Speech, Conduct, and the First Amendment (2003)
and articles in journals such as Law and History Review, Law and Society
Review, Studies in American Political Development, and Science in Context.
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For my parents
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