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7 Jan 2022, 5:01 am
Leading Federalist Senator (and future Secretary of State) Daniel Webster reflected the predominant New England sentiment when he condemned the proposed national draft, calling the issue “nothing less than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered, and despotism embraced in its worst form. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 7:30 am
He was known to be friends with Daniel Webster and visited Washington, D.C., as a member of delegations from the Cherokee Nation. [read post]
13 Oct 2021, 1:07 pm
The lone specific citation in the AI brief about bearing arms is of a "fact sheet" by Professor Daniel Webster, of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Concealed Carry of Firearms: Fact vs. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 3:31 pm
Dictionaries cited in the Heller case—Thomas Sheridan (1796), Samuel Johnson (1773), and Noah Webster (1828, the first dictionary of American English)—all defined "bear" as to "carry" or "wear. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:30 pm
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]
16 Aug 2021, 6:41 pm
The crash occurred on the ramp between the westbound Circumferential Highway to Daniel Webster Highway at around 3:45 a.m. 41-year-old Hudson man Neil Doiron was operating a 2014 Harley-Davidson FLHSX ST motorcycle when he exited the ramp. [read post]
9 Jul 2021, 1:01 am
Fillmore and his Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, dispatched Commodore Matthew C. [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]
1 Jun 2021, 3:07 pm
Pix Credit: Reuters, In Memorial Day speech, Biden defends ‘imperfect’ democracyPresident Biden, like several of his predecessors, set the toe of his speechmaking--understood as the way in which the president seeks to invest objects and events with collective meaning--by reference to key Biblical passages which resonate with the office holder. [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]
12 Apr 2021, 1:01 am
” (The Great Triumvirate refers to three statesmen who dominated American politics for much of the first half of the 19th century: Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and John C. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 2:42 am
"Also canceled were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster and Paul Revere. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 12:15 am
” 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]
11 Jan 2021, 2:01 am
Instead of nominating one of their legendary statesmen — Daniel Webster or Henry Clay — the Whigs went with celebrity war-hero Zachary Taylor, an enslaver who was popular with Southerners but had no governing experience and no fealty to Whig principles. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 8:16 am
Headed by Daniel Sutherland, an eternal optimist who was skilled at the interagency process, the CRCL punched above its weight and largely set the future direction of CVE programs. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 11:00 am
Briggs, Collins and Daniels did indeed argue that their position was supported by another provision within the UCMJ. [read post]
22 Nov 2020, 4:09 pm
In September, federal court justice Jacqueline Gleeson ordered the payout to Anne Webster MP over Facebook posts in April 2020 by Australian conspiracy theorist Karen Brewer. [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 2:53 pm
In his dissenting opinion, Judge Daniel Collins argues that Section 2808 authorizes diversion of funds for pretty much any activity done within an area placed under military jurisdiction. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 12:30 pm
"Even in the 21st Century, Daniel Webster still wins in court! [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 5:54 am
On June 29, Chief Justice John Roberts relied heavily on something called “the Decision of 1789” to expand presidential removal powers. [read post]
