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26 May 2023, 10:08 am by David Kopel
Delegates to the 1777 Continental Congress included  future Supreme Court Chief Justice Samuel Chase, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Francis Dana, Elbridge Gerry, John Hancock, the two Charles Carrolls from Maryland, John Witherspoon (President of Princeton, the great American college for free thought), Benjamin Harrison (father and grandfather of two Presidents), Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Richard Henry Lee . [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 2:00 am by Guest Author
 Volume I, in short, will focus on what the very 1st American legislatures and administrative committees (of safety and inspection, no less) were actually doing as opposed to what the so-called “Big Six” Founders (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and Hamilton) were saying. [read post]
11 Dec 2021, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Both Franklin and Adams, who were on the committee with Jefferson in Philadelphia, later prepared a Bills of Rights for their respective states. [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Republican Fundraising Vendor Wants More Small-Dollar Contributors to Replace Vanishing PAC Money Campaigns and Elections – Staff | Published: 9/22/2021 A large Republican fundraising vendor is pushing its clients to reorient their strategies around small-dollar contributors as PAC donations have dried up in the wake of the January 6 insurrection and a move away from Washington, D.C. lobbying by corporations and trade associations. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
In Foley’s view, the Jeffersonian goal underlying the Twelfth Amendment of 1804 was not merely to cure the mischief arising from the fact that electors were obligated to cast two “undifferentiated” votes for president—the great misstep that led to the Burr-Jefferson tie of 1800 and to Hamilton’s several attempts to throw votes away from John Adams. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
” Attorney David Finger said the plan denies the chance for his client, lawyer James Adams, to serve on t [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 4:05 pm by David Kopel
Persuaded by Henry's eloquence, the Virginia Convention formed a committee—including Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson—"to prepare a plan for the embodying, arming, and disciplining such a number of men as may be sufficient" to defend the commonwealth. [read post]
4 Jul 2017, 1:19 pm by Kevin
Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams (but mostly Jefferson) were working on the capital-D declaration, but Lee’s resolution was already pending, so Congress went ahead and voted on that. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 11:15 am
Our Lost Constitution by Mike Lee (2015)35. [read post]
4 Jul 2016, 2:01 am by Randy Barnett
So with the press of other matters, Jefferson did not have three leisurely weeks to write. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm by Alissa Ardito
Senator Mike Lee aptly describes in his remarks in this series. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 7:23 am by Randy Barnett
So with the press of other matters, Jefferson did not have three leisurely weeks to write. [read post]
4 Jul 2015, 7:32 am
So with the press of other matters, Jefferson did not have three leisurely weeks to write. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 1:15 pm by John Mikhail
  The Founders Online project alone yielded approximately 252 occurrences of the four target phrases in the correspondence and papers of the six most prominent founders: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and Hamilton. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
Strangelove" (16) "Flight of the Conchords" (4) "Game Change" (2) "Get Smart" (1) "Gran Torino" (10) "Grey Gardens" (13) "I Shouldn't Be Alive" (4) "Limelight" (3) "Meet the Press" (20) "Moby Dick" (5) "My Dinner with Andre" (34) "Mystery Science Theater" (2) "Project Runway" (78) "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" (3) "Seinfeld" (72) "Sex and the City" (14) "Slacker" (11) "Slumdog Millionaire" (16) "SNL" (60) "Sopranos" (50) "South Park" (71) "Star Trek" (12) "Star Wars" (25) "Survivor" (50)… [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 8:13 am by Ronald Collins
As with all matters of judicial interpretation, there are matters of nuance and construction. [read post]