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21 Oct 2018, 1:01 am
Calhoun; the great compromiser, Kentucky’s Henry Clay; former president Martin Van Buren; and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 1:20 pm
Daniel Webster, in his Seventh of March Speech justifying his support of the Compromise of 1850, at least could plausibly claim to be trying to save the Union. [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 7:18 am
WILIAM EDGAR SIMONDS 1891-1893Descended through his father from Daniel Webster, and through his mother from Roger de Coigneries, who came to England with William the Conqueror, it might well be expected that William Edgar Simonds would make his mark in the world. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 9:40 am
Some highlights include: heavily annotated copies of important legal texts like Edward Coke's Reports and Richard Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer; a trial pamphlet for an 1859 Boston trial regarding the alleged assault and battery by a teacher upon a Roman Catholic pupil for his refusal to recite the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments; a statement of account from Daniel Webster's legal practice before he entered the world of politics; a writ… [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 11:26 am
Secretary of State Daniel Webster and a new British envoy to the United States, Lord Ashburton (Alexander Baring), produced agreement on the law, and agreement to disagree on the facts. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 5:51 am
Alito cites only two: Noah Webster and Oliver Ellsworth (both of whom were invoked in the amicus brief of certain California teachers). [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 4:00 am
” There is an old adage that most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor”, he says referencing the quote from American Lawyer and statesman, Daniel Webster. [read post]
21 May 2018, 3:18 am
Led by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and former President John Quincy Adams, the party endorsed tariffs and a national bank, and it clearly detested President Jackson. [read post]
10 May 2018, 8:00 am
We show how the radical lawyers confronted and defeated the conservative legal elite, including the likes of Joseph Story, Daniel Webster and Benjamin Robbins Curtis, using legal arguments and a comprehensive litigation strategy. [read post]
7 May 2018, 3:11 pm
See Webster's Third New International Dictionary 2280 (1981) (defining "substantive" as "having the character of an independent self-subsistent ... thing: ... not derivative or dependent"). [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 10:00 am
Bringing to resounding life the legendary lawyers and justices involved in the corporate rights movement—among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—Winkler’s tour de force exposes how the nation’s most powerful corporations gained our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business.Endorsements include:“An eye-opening account of how corporations became… [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 2:30 pm
Scientific American spoke with Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, and Daniel Webster, director of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Policy and Research, about four feasible legal and policy changes that would be most effective. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 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]
18 Jan 2018, 3:00 am
Daniel Webster was one of the seminal figures of 19th century America as an orator and politician. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 7:08 am
The complaint and separate proofs of claim were also filed in the bankruptcy cases of ITT’s subsidiaries, ESI Service Corp. and Daniel Webster College, Inc. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 2:30 am
But as he told Daniel Webster in a letter, he felt it was his constitutional duty to enforce the law. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 2:53 am
Clay and a group of northern politicians, including Daniel Webster, wanted a large national infrastructure program. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 1:21 am
Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Senate Majority Leader Henry Clay pressed for a compromise that only admitted California as an anti-slavery state. [read post]
20 Nov 2017, 9:30 pm
Ashworth, and Webster v. [read post]
