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18 Jan 2004, 12:29 am
On January 18, 1782, lawyer and orator Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 3:00 am by Scott Bomboy
Daniel Webster was one of the seminal figures of 19th century America as an orator and politician. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia, has published Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution (University Press of Kansas):Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 5:00 am by Matthew Waxman
Daniel Webster and War Powers Daniel Webster was one of the 19th century’s greatest lawyers, legislators, orators and diplomats, including serving in the House and the Senate and twice as secretary of state. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 12:45 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster began his closing oration on a debate over a proposal by a Connecticut senator to limit federal land sales in the West. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 2:19 pm by Erika Wayne
The Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act is again winding its way through Congress (H.R. 151 and S. 27). [read post]
11 May 2011, 9:22 am by Kurt Lash
I was pleased to see the Fourth Circuit panel’s reference to the oral advocacy of Daniel Webster in yesterday’s argument regarding the constitutionality of the individual insurance mandate. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 5:04 pm
I am delighted to announce the new Daniel Webster Program at Dartmouth College. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 8:00 am by Todd Presnell
Supreme Court, scholars regard Daniel Webster as one of America’s greatest lawyers. [read post]
7 Mar 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Senator Daniel Webster Webster, to the shock of his fellow northerners, criticized opponents of the Fugitive Slave Law, advising them they had a constitutional duty to return slaves who had escaped into the free states, saying: No man fulfills his duty in any legislature who sets himself to find excuses, evasions, escapes from this constitutional obligation. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 7:04 pm by Jennifer R. Dixon
Senator, Daniel Webster’s request to intervene in the widely-reported Florida redistricting case, League of Women Voters of Florida, Inc., et al. v. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 6:59 am by Alfred Brophy
 One of my favorite works of legal history is Maurice Baxter's fabulous intellectual biography, One and Inseparable: Daniel Webster and the Union. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 12:15 am by Steve Lubet
”  Beinart offers Thomas Hart Benton and Sam Houston as historical examples of senior senators who risked their careers to oppose slavery and reject secession, but he closes his essay very oddly with this quote from Massachusetts’s Daniel Webster: “I should indeed like to please you; but I prefer to save you, whatever be your attitude toward me. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 3:27 pm by Rick St. Hilaire
Hilaire answer questions from an audience of legal and cultural heritage professionals at the Daniel Webster International Lawyer of the Year ceremony held in Manchester, NH. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 10:14 pm
  Below is a brief summary from the Congressional Research Service: “Daniel Webster [...] [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 1:04 pm by Big Tent Democrat
Daniel Webster believes wives should submit to their husbands. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 8:47 pm
The Daniel Webster program provides a small number of law students the path to practice without taking the NH Bar exam. [read post]