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2 Feb 2020, 8:00 am by Matthew Waxman
In 1818, Congress mustered no formal response when the Monroe administration defended General Andrew Jackson’s “defensive” campaign across Spanish Florida. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 9:45 am by Jonathan Shaub
” And James Monroe refused to provide information about particular charges against a naval officer, reasoning that “the publication of those documents might tend to excite prejudices which might operate to the injury” of the ongoing investigations of the charges against the officer. [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 3:03 am by Walter Olson
(Rochester) want to make it illegal to “annoy” a police officer [James Brown, WXXI, Eugene Volokh] Jury unanimity is required in federal criminal trials, but does the Constitution also require it at the state court level? [read post]
30 Dec 2019, 6:00 am by Matthew Waxman
Similar to the way President James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress addressed Latin America, Tyler began his 1842 statement by noting that the Hawaiian islands were much closer to North America than to any other continent, and by outlining important American interests there. [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 5:47 am by Chris Castle
Presidential Signing Statements were first used by President James Monroe in 1822 in the form of a “special message” to the Senate. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  The discussion of the meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause was as angry and disputatious in 2012 as it was in 1819, when James Madison, who had, after all, signed the Bill establishing the Second Bank of the United States, wrote Spencer Roane of Virginia that the Constitution never would have been ratified in 1787-88 had delegates to the various conventions realized that the Clause would take on the meaning assigned to it by Chief Justice Marshall. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 8:50 am by Derek T. Muller
Washington at 67, John Adams at 73, Thomas Jefferson at 83, James Madison at 85, James Monroe at 73, and John Quincy Adams at 80.The requirement would undoubtedly alter how presidential campaigns would run. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 12:42 am by Steve Lubet
The biggest surprise was the discovery that Copeland’s childhood friend, James Monroe Jones, had been a delegate to John Brown’s Chatham Conference and a signatory on Brown’s Provisional Constitution. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 6:00 am by Paul Rosenzweig
  James Monroe, for example, responded: There is one security in this case to which gentlemen may not have adverted: if the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty; they can suspend him when suspected, and the power will devolve on the Vice-President. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 1:21 pm
" "In March 2018, when DCF began the ITN process, a non-profit business called Our Kids of Miami-Dade and Monroe, Inc ("Our Kids, Inc. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The interim between James Monroe’s presidency and the Civil War was marked by extreme sectional division over many political issues, including protectionism v. free trade; annexation of new territories (Texas, California, and Oregon); and state nullification of federal law. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 7:37 am by Nathan Matias
He tells us about Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia, who redrew the lines to try to favor James Monroe over James Madison. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
As Jefferson wrote to James Monroe: I am now about setting out on a journey to the South of France, one object of which is to try the mineral waters there for the restoration of my hand, but another is to visit all the seaports where we have trade, and to hunt up all the inconveniencies under which it labours, in order to get them rectified. [read post]
9 Feb 2019, 2:02 am by Scott Bomboy
In the “Era Of Good Feelings,” President James Monroe ran basically unopposed for re-election in 1820. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
After the war, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Alexander Hamilton all pleaded with Congress to square accounts with Beaumarchais and — after he died– with his estate, but Congress consistently refused. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 11:05 am by Anushka Limaye
ICYMI: Last Weekend on Lawfare On the anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, Matthew Waxman analyzed presidential power with regard to setting U.S. foreign policy and threatening war. [read post]