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15 Oct 2020, 12:47 pm
Thomas Jefferson and the other Framers of the Constitution wisely recognized that without jury trials, power is abused and liberty gives way to tyranny. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 1:01 am
(The other three are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.) [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
This did not, obviously, prevent the important Twelfth Amendment, a focus of Foley’s book, from being proposed and ratified after the fiasco of the Jefferson-Burr tie vote of 1800, in time for the 1804 election. [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 2:53 pm
My own (admittedly unpopular) view is that Chief Justice John Marshall simply got the meaning of "necessary" wrong in McCulloch, and that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, among others, were right to argue that it should have been read to mean something like "essential," rather than merely convenient. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 5:57 am
Thomas Jefferson Univ. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 9:52 am
Here is a simple example: students all learn that Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder and that he wrote the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 2:40 pm
In 1800, Thomas Jefferson and his running mate Aaron Burr received the same number of votes. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 7:00 am
Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 10:03 am
It happened in 1800, when it took 36 votes in the House before Thomas Jefferson was chosen as President. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 2:27 pm
"My suggestion was that the president have Breyer to lunch and say to him, 'I believe historians will someday say the three greatest American ambassadors to France were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Stephen G. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 2:23 pm
Jefferson. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 2:40 pm
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17 Sep 2020, 1:12 pm
This Digital Collection includes records of the Constitutional Convention known as Farrand’s Records, as well as, the papers of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 2:38 am
Absent were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and John Hancock, among others. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 11:31 am
Precedents established by Thomas Jefferson in 1800 would permit Pence to invalidate a particular state's electoral returns on the grounds that the underlying vote-count was generated in an illegitimate fashion — that it was rigged. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 10:59 am
" 4 Annals of Cong. 934 (1794); see also Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) ("[T]he opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction[.] [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 2:40 am
Thomas Jefferson is credited as being the first person to come up with the name, which he used while drafting the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 1:01 am
” Thomas Jefferson by Charles Willson Peale The Christian Science Monitor notes that the use of the moniker “United States of America” by Thomas Jefferson and others credited for the name was predated by a recently discovered example of the phrase in the Revolutionary-era Virginia Gazette. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 9:34 am
News & World Report, Washburn Law School Removes Statues Of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson Anthea Butler (Pennsylvania) & Kevin Gannon (Grand View University), #ScholarStrike: Professors Plan Strike For Racial Justice Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The Controversy Over Quoting Racial... [read post]
