| Contents | Law and History Review, 22.1

Vol. 22, No. 1

Spring 2004


Editorial Staff

In This Issue	v

Articles

Politics and Procedure in the Trial of Charles I
Sean Kelsey	1

Popular Perceptions of Rape as a Capital Crime in Eighteenth-Century England: The Press and the Trial of Francis Charteris in the Old Bailey, February 1730
Antony E. Simpson	27

Enforcing Virtue: Social Norms and Self-Interest in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Court
Amalia D. Kessler	71

Forum: Reconsidering the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment: A Missing Transatlantic Context for the Historical Meaning of "the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms"
David Thomas Konig	119

Comment

A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
Saul Cornell	161

Scottish Factors and the Origins of the Second Amendment
H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel	169

Response

Influence and Emulation in the Constitutional Republic of Letters
David Thomas Konig	179

Book Reviews

A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven—Cynthia B. Herrup
reviewed by Margaret R. Hunt	183

The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London—Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen
reviewed by Victor Stater	185

Sources of Biographical Information on Past Lawyers—Guy Holborn
reviewed by Albert J. Schmidt	186

The Death Penalty: An American Story—Stuart Banner
reviewed by Randall McGowen	188

Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America—David Skeel
reviewed by Edward Balleisen	190

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886–1937—William M. Wiecek
reviewed by David E. Kyvig	192

The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930—Nikki Mandell
reviewed by Jennifer Mittelstadt	194

Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America—Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
reviewed by Linda Przybyszewski	196

The Constitution and the New Deal—G. Edward White
reviewed by John Henry Schlegel	198

Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law—David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima, and Religious Freedom and Indian Rights: The Case of Oregon v. Smith—Carolyn N. Long
reviewed by James T. Carroll	200

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence—Bruce H. Mann
reviewed by Heather Cox Richardson	202

The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839–1865—Charles W. McCurdy
reviewed by Elizabeth Blackmar	204

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America—Sarah Barringer Gordon
reviewed by Victoria Saker Woeste	206

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