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This paper critically explores the competing theoretical arguments regarding the causes of the pervasive practice of plea bargaining in the United States today. Limits of early Law and Economics arguments and of early Socio-Legal arguments are demonstrated. Drawing on comparatively informed historical research, the origins of this controversial practice in the politics of the Age of Jackson are revealed.