Author: John Lansing
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584772182
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
John Lansing attended the Constitutional Convention as delegates from New York. His heirs discovered his notes among his papers, they were not published until 1939. They provide a rich new primary source record for scholars of the Convention. Only in Lansing's notes do we find a report of Constitutional questions regarding states' rights.
The Delegate from New York, Or, Proceedings of the Federal Convention of 1787
Author: John Lansing
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584772182
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
John Lansing attended the Constitutional Convention as delegates from New York. His heirs discovered his notes among his papers, they were not published until 1939. They provide a rich new primary source record for scholars of the Convention. Only in Lansing's notes do we find a report of Constitutional questions regarding states' rights.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584772182
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
John Lansing attended the Constitutional Convention as delegates from New York. His heirs discovered his notes among his papers, they were not published until 1939. They provide a rich new primary source record for scholars of the Convention. Only in Lansing's notes do we find a report of Constitutional questions regarding states' rights.
The Delegate from New York
Author: John Lansing
Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet
Author: Bill Kauffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us—if he is known at all—as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. In Bill Kauffman's rollicking account of his turbulent life and times, Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy. In Martin's view, the Constitution was the tool of a counterrevolution aimed at reducing the states to ciphers and at fortifying a national government whose powers to tax and coerce would be frightening. Martin delivered the most forceful and sustained attack on the Constitution ever levied—a critique that modern readers might find jarringly relevant. And Martin's post-convention career, though clouded by drink and scandal, found him as defense counsel in two of the great trials of the age: the Senate trial of the impeached Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase and the treason trial of his friend Aaron Burr. Kauffman's Luther Martin is a brilliant and passionate polemicist, a stubborn and admirable defender of a decentralized republic who fights for the principles of 1776 all the way to the last ditch and last drop. In remembering this forgotten founder, we remember also the principles that once animated many of the earliest—and many later—American patriots.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us—if he is known at all—as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. In Bill Kauffman's rollicking account of his turbulent life and times, Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy. In Martin's view, the Constitution was the tool of a counterrevolution aimed at reducing the states to ciphers and at fortifying a national government whose powers to tax and coerce would be frightening. Martin delivered the most forceful and sustained attack on the Constitution ever levied—a critique that modern readers might find jarringly relevant. And Martin's post-convention career, though clouded by drink and scandal, found him as defense counsel in two of the great trials of the age: the Senate trial of the impeached Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase and the treason trial of his friend Aaron Burr. Kauffman's Luther Martin is a brilliant and passionate polemicist, a stubborn and admirable defender of a decentralized republic who fights for the principles of 1776 all the way to the last ditch and last drop. In remembering this forgotten founder, we remember also the principles that once animated many of the earliest—and many later—American patriots.
The Men Who Made the Constitution
Author: John R. Vile
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810888653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated the debates, the exchanges were also shaped by the dynamic personalities of the fifty-five delegates who attended from twelve of the thirteen states. In The Men Who Made the Constitution, constitutional scholar John R. Vileexplores the lives and contributions of all delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, including those who left before the Convention ended and those who stayed until the last day but refused to sign. Each biography records the delegate’s birth, education, previous positions or public service roles, homes, family life, life after the Convention, death, and resting place. Drawing directly from Convention debates and a vast array of secondary sources, Vile covers the positions of each delegate at the Convention on both major and minor issues and describes his service on committees and afterward at state ratification conventions. The Men Who Made the Constitution includes a bibliography of key sources, engravings of delegates for whom portraits were created, a quiz on key facts, and a transcript of the Constitution of the United States. This work is the perfect reference for students and scholars, as well as professional and amateur historians, of colonial and early American history, constitutional law, and American jurisprudence.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810888653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated the debates, the exchanges were also shaped by the dynamic personalities of the fifty-five delegates who attended from twelve of the thirteen states. In The Men Who Made the Constitution, constitutional scholar John R. Vileexplores the lives and contributions of all delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, including those who left before the Convention ended and those who stayed until the last day but refused to sign. Each biography records the delegate’s birth, education, previous positions or public service roles, homes, family life, life after the Convention, death, and resting place. Drawing directly from Convention debates and a vast array of secondary sources, Vile covers the positions of each delegate at the Convention on both major and minor issues and describes his service on committees and afterward at state ratification conventions. The Men Who Made the Constitution includes a bibliography of key sources, engravings of delegates for whom portraits were created, a quiz on key facts, and a transcript of the Constitution of the United States. This work is the perfect reference for students and scholars, as well as professional and amateur historians, of colonial and early American history, constitutional law, and American jurisprudence.
Founding Fathers
Author: Melvin Eustace Bradford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Originally published : A worthy company. Marlborough, N.H. : Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Originally published : A worthy company. Marlborough, N.H. : Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982.
A Collection of All the Wills, Now Known to be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and Every Branch of the Blood Royal, from the Reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the Seventh Exclusive
Author:
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363870
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
These wills of members of the English Royalty from William the Conqueror through Henry VII are in their original language and often have brief introductions, annotations and postscripts in English. With a Glossary and "Additional Observations and Corrections." x, 434 pp. Originally published: London: J. Nichols, 1780. "This series of miscellaneous and different wills presents us with many curious particulars. We learn from them more of the manners and private life of our illustrious ancestors, some new facts in their public history, and several new descents in their pedigrees. The prospect of death sets their lives in a new point of light." --Preface, v
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363870
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
These wills of members of the English Royalty from William the Conqueror through Henry VII are in their original language and often have brief introductions, annotations and postscripts in English. With a Glossary and "Additional Observations and Corrections." x, 434 pp. Originally published: London: J. Nichols, 1780. "This series of miscellaneous and different wills presents us with many curious particulars. We learn from them more of the manners and private life of our illustrious ancestors, some new facts in their public history, and several new descents in their pedigrees. The prospect of death sets their lives in a new point of light." --Preface, v
The Constitutional Convention and the Formation of the Union
Author: Winton U. Solberg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book contains James Madison's notes on the debates which provide a first-hand view of the drafting of the nation's fundamental charter. An introduction by Solberg places the origins of the Constitution in the broader historical perspective of the development of political theory and constitutional practice in Western civilization. The book also links the formation of the Constitution to the events of the American Revolution from the Stamp Act Crisis to the Bill of Rights. Solberg provides background on the ratification of the Constitution, biographical sketches of each participant in the Philadelphia Convention, and population figures on which representation was to be based. - Back cover.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book contains James Madison's notes on the debates which provide a first-hand view of the drafting of the nation's fundamental charter. An introduction by Solberg places the origins of the Constitution in the broader historical perspective of the development of political theory and constitutional practice in Western civilization. The book also links the formation of the Constitution to the events of the American Revolution from the Stamp Act Crisis to the Bill of Rights. Solberg provides background on the ratification of the Constitution, biographical sketches of each participant in the Philadelphia Convention, and population figures on which representation was to be based. - Back cover.
Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana
Author: Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584772859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Ford, Paul Leicester [1865-1902]. Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Alexander Hamilton. New York: Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press, 1886. vi, [80] pp. (irregular pagination). Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-285-9. Cloth. $85. * Contains Alexander Hamilton's official and unofficial writings and those relating to him, arranged chronologically under the date of the first edition, with principal locations noted. With a useful chronological bibliography of all editions of The Federalist, with collation. Alexander Hamilton [1755-1804] was Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington, and author, along with John Jay and James Madison, of the influential collection of political essays, The Federalist. During his short lifetime Ford was a historian and historical novelist as well as a noted and prolific bibliographer of Americana and editor of Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790. Dictionary of American Biography III: 518-520.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584772859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Ford, Paul Leicester [1865-1902]. Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Alexander Hamilton. New York: Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press, 1886. vi, [80] pp. (irregular pagination). Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-285-9. Cloth. $85. * Contains Alexander Hamilton's official and unofficial writings and those relating to him, arranged chronologically under the date of the first edition, with principal locations noted. With a useful chronological bibliography of all editions of The Federalist, with collation. Alexander Hamilton [1755-1804] was Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington, and author, along with John Jay and James Madison, of the influential collection of political essays, The Federalist. During his short lifetime Ford was a historian and historical novelist as well as a noted and prolific bibliographer of Americana and editor of Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790. Dictionary of American Biography III: 518-520.
The Effect of an Unconstitutional Statute
Author: Oliver Peter Field
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 158477181X
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Field, Oliver P. The Effect of an Unconstitutional Statute. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1935. xi, 355 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001022508. ISBN 1-58477-181-X. Cloth. $80. * State and federal courts have a long history of deeming statutes unconstitutional. Although there have been a number of treatises on the nature of judicial review, this volume treats the issue of the results of a statute deemed unconstitutional. "The varying meanings of the process of 'declaring a statute unconstitutional' or unenforceable, the meaning of 'unconstitutionality,' the legal effect of the tainted statute or its defective part, and of the decision branding it, are the subject matter of this scholarly and effective book." Edwin Borchard, Yale Law Journal 45:1533. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 397-398.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 158477181X
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Field, Oliver P. The Effect of an Unconstitutional Statute. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1935. xi, 355 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001022508. ISBN 1-58477-181-X. Cloth. $80. * State and federal courts have a long history of deeming statutes unconstitutional. Although there have been a number of treatises on the nature of judicial review, this volume treats the issue of the results of a statute deemed unconstitutional. "The varying meanings of the process of 'declaring a statute unconstitutional' or unenforceable, the meaning of 'unconstitutionality,' the legal effect of the tainted statute or its defective part, and of the decision branding it, are the subject matter of this scholarly and effective book." Edwin Borchard, Yale Law Journal 45:1533. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 397-398.
A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
Author: Julius J. Marke
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.