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9 Feb 2012, 3:16 pm
It also tells the story of the Wright brother's airplane monopoly, the Colt revolver's role in the Mexican American War, the Sewing Machine wars, the last six months of Daniel Webster's life, and the controversy behind the Bell telephone patent".Merpel wonders if you really have to be American, paranoid and gullible if you are going to enjoy this book to the full -- the sort of person who is stirred into inventiveness by the patriotic naming of the America… [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 5:04 am
This article was written by Danielle Ebrahim-Naseem, Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 3:00 am
The official announcement came from his Cabinet, led by Daniel Webster. [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 3:00 pm
The deaths of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster that year severely weakened the party. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 6:18 am
Congress took up the bill in December 1814, leading to an intense debate which saw Daniel Webster giving one of his first great orations, asking, “Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? [read post]
11 May 2012, 4:18 am
The agreed starting point is the Caroline episode of the 1840s, in which Secretary of State Daniel Webster opined that Britain could use force against Canadian rebels operating out of U.S. territory only if the threat were imminent, with “no moment for deliberation. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 4:09 am
So instead of hearing about John Winthrop (and a generation later Cotton Mather), we hear about Roger Williams; instead of George Washington and James Wilson we hear about Paine; instead of Daniel Webster and John C. [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 3:31 pm
Social historian, lawyer and cultural critic Daniel Boorstin said of heroes that they created themselves. [read post]
15 May 2012, 5:58 am
Thomas Jefferson), secession, the legitimate uses of the veto power, the death penalty (Benjamin Rush), the military draft (Daniel Webster v. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 2:12 pm
Where once the Senate consisted of people like Clay, Webster, and Calhoun, and in living memory boasted members of the quality of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, people who actually took the long view, today’s Senators are almost uniformly mediocrities: Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Joe Lieberman, John Ensign, Lisa Murkowski. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 11:58 am
& Pol’y Rev. 258-317 (2010).Sieck, Daniel R. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 6:00 am
Here Ariens sheds light on several prominent trials, among them those arising out of the Boston Massacre, the Philadelphia Treason prosecutions, Aaron Burr’s defense of Levi Weeks in connection with the murder of Elma Sands, and Daniel Webster’s representation of the Knapp brothers in connection with the brutal stabbing death of an eighty-two-year-old merchant. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 6:50 am
Daniel Webster is thought to have coined that phrase in his oral arguments in the Supreme Court case, McCulloch v. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 8:17 am
Daniel Berman (CEO Maccabi Enterprise Development & Chairman, eHealthVentures, Israel) turned the audience’s attention to how ‘AI and Big Data’ is disrupting the medical sector in Israel. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
One explanation is that Lash believes that law students, fellow academics, and judges, including committed originalists, should take them seriously and treat them as fully seriously as plausible interpretations of the Constitution even if, obviously, they did not prevail against more conventional lawyers like Daniel Webster or Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 8:00 am
” In the end, Polk’s military success in occupying Mexico’s northern provinces and taking Mexico’s capital helped beat back efforts by Daniel Webster and others to forego major territorial acquisition, but congressional pressure to bring an end to the war compelled Polk to hastily accept treaty terms that he considered imperfect. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 7:45 pm
And Graham Webster rejects altogether the premise that the TPP represents a “No China Club. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 6:59 am
’ Webster's New World College Dictionary 1305 (4th ed. 2001). [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 9:00 am
The Mayor was joined at the announcement at Pier 1 by State Senator Daniel L. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
Merriam-Webster defines hypothetical as "being or involving a hypothesis : CONJECTURAL," and hypothesis as "an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument" or "a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences," from the Greek from hypotithenai, "to put under. [read post]
