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28 May 2021, 7:08 am by Nathan Dorn
Associate Justice Samuel Chase concluded the contrary, arguing that while the states have adopted elements of the common law, the United States federal government has not. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
President Thomas Jefferson and Marbury v. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 2:45 am by Scott Bomboy
Years later, biographer William Wirt in 1817 reconstructed the speech based on the recollections of Thomas Jefferson and others. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 12:26 am
Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson drafted a "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms," issued by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 2:00 am by Karen Tani
In the book pages of the Washington Post, Joyce Appleby reviews American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America (Simon & Schuster), by David O. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 11:56 am by Judicial Watch Blog
That Texas judge, Samuel Kent (appointed to the bench by George H.W. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 1:26 pm
  To be sure, there were traditional Christians among the Founders, including such men as John Jay, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 2:19 am
Followers of Blawg Review will remember last year's close race for Blawg Review of the Year 2007, when Turkewitz's New York Personal Injury Law Blog marathon Blawg Review #134 ran a very close second to Blawg Review #137, based on the final chapter in Dante's trilogy, earning Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise the coveted award for the third year running.Blawg Review is finishing 2008 with an all star lineup:Eric Turkewitz has something special planned, but he's not… [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 6:42 am by Joel A. Webber
Arthur Middleton   Massachusetts John Hancock Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton   Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. [read post]
12 May 2023, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
The principal thesis of Jeffery Toobin's excellent new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism is contained in the subtitle. [read post]
26 May 2023, 10:08 am by David Kopel
Delegates to the 1777 Continental Congress included  future Supreme Court Chief Justice Samuel Chase, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Francis Dana, Elbridge Gerry, John Hancock, the two Charles Carrolls from Maryland, John Witherspoon (President of Princeton, the great American college for free thought), Benjamin Harrison (father and grandfather of two Presidents), Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Richard Henry Lee . [read post]
26 Jul 2024, 6:00 am by JB
This reading would have the puzzling consequence that former Confederate Generals and officials, such as Jefferson Davis, who had previously taken oaths of office to support the Union, would be barred from holding lower federal and state offices, and could not serve as Presidential electors, but could still serve as President. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 2:41 pm by K&L Gates
Constitution clearly did not take into consideration any tweets by our founding fathers, it is probably safe to assume that Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson would have loved to tweet their opinions as much as they loved to write for the newspapers of their day (sometimes under anonymous pseudonyms similar to today’s twitter user names). [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
He wrote to his friend Samuel Griffin that “I have received much Satisfaction from the Amendments to the federal Constitution, which have lately passed the House of Representatives; I hope they will also pass the Senate,” Mason said. [read post]