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15 Jun 2020, 1:01 am
An interim treaty, negotiated by British diplomat Lord Ashburton and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and called the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, partially delineated the northeastern U.S. [read post]
10 May 2020, 5:06 am
(This case gave us Daniel Webster's most famous oral argument.) [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]
2 Feb 2020, 4:41 am
The powerful Whig leader in the Senate, Daniel Webster, opposed it, as did a young Representative from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 1:58 am
As a staunch admirer of Daniel Webster, Curtis praised the latter’s infamous Seventh of March speech, in which the then-senator implored Congress to accept the Compromise of 1850, including the deeply offensive Fugitive Slave Act. [read post]
26 Jan 2020, 4:43 pm
Instead of heroes like John Quincy Adams, Sam Houston, and Daniel Webster, Schweizer focuses his searchlight on nine figures who exemplify political corruption in the administrative state that is America today. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 8:00 am
Supreme Court, scholars regard Daniel Webster as one of America’s greatest lawyers. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 8:00 am
Supreme Court, scholars regard Daniel Webster as one of America’s greatest lawyers. [read post]
30 Dec 2019, 6:00 am
The main architect of the Tyler Doctrine was Secretary of State Daniel Webster. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 7:50 am
Calhoun, and Daniel Webster--all of whom figure prominently in the book-- together with an unfurled scroll labeled “Constitution of the United States. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 6:30 am
Lash’s constitutional origin story also asks us to ignore the views of George Washington, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris, and indeed the dominant majority of the 1787 Convention; the ratification debates over federal power, the Federalist party, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and the national Republicans -- in short, one entire side of the debate over national powers that began with the founding and has been, in Marshall’s words, “perpetually arising. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 6:11 am
But it can also mean, according to Merriam-Webster, a great devotion to an idea or movement, such as the cult of physical fitness. [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 9:30 pm
Matthew Waxman, Columbia Law School, continues his Lawfare posts on the history of war powers with Daniel Webster, War Powers and Bird$h*t.Our friends at the Federal Judicial Center note that Supreme Court of the United States has posted a complete set of its Rules from 1803 onward. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 5:00 am
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]
14 Aug 2019, 9:54 am
From an email message that I received today: UNH Law is seeking a full-time, year-round Director for its Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program (DWS) to begin in July of 2020. [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]
15 Jun 2019, 1:01 am
Calhoun of South Carolina; and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 11:25 am
Abraham Lincoln read law, as did Daniel Webster, Stephen Douglas, Henry Clay, Salmon P. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm
She checked in somewhere down the list from Daniel Webster and Salmon P. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 11:29 am
” This is a phrase that then-Senator Daniel Webster used to characterize the Mexican-American War in 1846 and one that Beschloss adopts to describe prevailing constitutional practice. [read post]
