This study of the political and legal thought of the American Revolution and founding period explores the differences in the perceptions of judicial and jural power that characterized the conditions of law in late 18th century America, as compared to her British counterparts.

Part 1 Revolutions and conceptual change: political thought and historical problematics; historical transformations and legal legacies; juries and American revolutionary jurisprudence. Part 2 From judicial space to judicial review: locating the "voice of the people"; law in the context of continuous "revolution"; the politics of judicial space; the court, the constitution and continuing.