Public Lands & the Law in the Early Republic
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 16 June 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:53.6 | On lectures in history, Duke University professor Laura Edwards teaches a class on public lands |
| 0:59.2 | and the law in the early American Republic. She looks at competing visions for westward expansion |
| 1:04.9 | among the founders, particularly Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. She also talks about |
| 1:10.4 | multiple federal laws aimed at controlling land distribution and discusses |
| 1:14.8 | the role of the law in usurping Native American lands. |
| 1:18.5 | This is about an hour and 15 minutes. |
| 1:23.7 | So public lands and the legal order. |
| 1:27.2 | And we're going to catch up just for a second to link this class to what we did last time. |
| 1:31.4 | And last time we were talking about federalism and particularly the balance of power between states and localities. |
| 1:37.9 | Now, when people talk about federalism, they usually use the term to refer to the balance of power between the federal government and states. |
| 1:45.3 | But last time we were talking about the debates between state and local level power. |
| 1:50.8 | And those mirror debates at the federal level, and if anything, they were much more contentious |
| 1:55.9 | because so much governing authority was actually located at the states and localities. |
| 2:01.1 | And what we were talking about was a system of layered authority, |
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