Description: Trials of Allegiance : Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution, Hardcover by Larson, Carlton F. W., ISBN 0190932740, ISBN-13 9780190932749, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Trials of Allegiance examines the law of treason during the American Revolution: a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America.
Drawing from extensive archival research in Pennsylvania, one of the main centers of the revolution, Carlton Larson provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the treason prosecutions brought by Americans against British adherents: through committees of safety, military tribunals, and ordinary
criminal trials. Although popular rhetoric against traitors was pervasive in Pennsylvania, jurors consistently viewed treason defendants not as incorrigibly evil, but as fellow Americans who had made a political mistake. This book explains the repeated and violently controversial pattern of
acquittals. Juries were carefully selected in ways that benefited the defendants, and jurors refused to accept the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for treason. The American Revolution, unlike many others, would not be enforced with the gallows.
More broadly, Larson explores how the Revolutions treason trials shaped American national identity and perceptions of national allegiance. He concludes with the adoption of the Treason Clause of the United States Constitution, which was immediately put to use in the early 1790s in response to the
Whiskey Rebellion and Friess Rebellion.
In taking a fresh look at these formative events, The Trials of Allegiance reframes how we think about treason in American history, up to and including the present.
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Book Title: Trials of Allegiance : Treason, Juries, and the American Revoluti
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Publication Name: Trials of Allegiance : Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), General, United States / General, American Government / State
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 24.9 Oz
Item Length: 6.1 in
Author: Carlton F. W. Larson
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, History
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover