| Titre | Land law, law of the land au XIXe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Marie-France Toinet | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 48-49, avril-juillet 1991 La terre américaine. | |
| Page | 12 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
The situation in the United States was totally different from that in European countries : in the United States the national government owned, at one time or another, roughly 80 % of the land and still owns a third of the territory today. Public lands were not left idle or given away : they were used with specific policies in mind. The goal was to build a nation and to ensure its economic development. In education, in agriculture and in the field of communications the basic structures were built up through the adroit use of land laws. And land laws were also used — in Congress, but primarily through the Supreme Court — to construct the law of the land, a centralized and all-encompassing national legal system. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1991_num_48_1_1427 |
