Takings and the Nineteenth Century Railroad Eaton v. Boston, Concord Montreal R.R. (B., C. M.R.R.): A New Hampshire Supreme Court Decision from 1872. by S. Dalal ...
PaulineAbijaoude 25 Apr 2018 The age of Congressional grants of land to railroads matured in the 1850s and rapidly declined in favor by the 1870s. This short period ...
No Suffrage, Little Attention; Nonetheless, Some Prosperity A wealthy half Black war veteran and frontiersman named George Washington Bush altered the course of history ...
No Suffrage, Little Attention; Nonetheless, Some Prosperity A wealthy half Black war veteran and frontiersman named George Washington Bush altered the course of history ...
Origins of solitary confinement in the U.S. Origins Up until the end of the Revolutionary period, sanguinary punishments were used to penalize those who had ...
JoseMiranda 15 Oct 2017 INTRODUCTION Contemporary legal education primarily teaches students how to "think like a lawyer" and present balanced and formulaic arguments ...
Court vs. Country: A Case Study of the First Bank of the United States A case of what? We never find out, barring the elusive mention in your last paragraph, ...
ZebulunJohnson 12 Jan 2017 Introduction As far back as Revolution, Americans have been concerned about labor displacement. This concern often manifests as fear directed ...
FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE AT THE FIVE POINTS: THE JULY 4TH AND 5TH RIOT OF 1857 By, Ben Marcu Abraham Florentine Jr. was just three blocks from his house when ...
American Legal History its Materials Fall 2016 On Friday, 11 November, we will meet in WJWH 600, for one day only , to accommodate a conference being held in ...
The Monroe Doctrine and the Law of Nations: a brief History Ken Yang The fascinating aspect of the Monroe Doctrine comes from its duality. As Sexton points out, the ...
Great Depression Gold Seizures and the Rule of Law #8220;Hell, there are no rules around here. We #8217;re trying to accomplish something. #8221; #8211; Thomas ...
Arbitration in New Netherland In the 17th century Dutch colony New Netherland, arbitration was used as a form of non court dispute resolution. Unlike contemporary ...
I set out to assault originalism using key moments in the creation of the United States constitution as evidence that originalism leads to absurdity. From that conclusion ...
Law and the River On the economic and legal geographies of British North America before the war of independence. Readings Access materials on the Readings page ...
Expansion, Transformation, and the Release of Energy The newly independent empire of the United States in its explosive, expansionist phase was organized by law built ...
Unification and/or the "Free and Independent States" The Declaration of Independence (ostensibly a document declaring the separation of a singular people from a sovereign ...
Why Does Religious Conviction Endure Exposure? A thought occurs to me regarding the arbitrary, yet pious and prudential, nature and function of early Massachusetts ...
Colonial Labor Systems Law The labor discipline systems of British colonial North America, slave and free, set the conditions of social and legal development for ...
Ideology and Illusion in Colonial Legal Development European settlement in North America, and in particular the English settlements, can only be understood in relation ...
Settlement In this section of the course, we consider the process by which colonial legal regimes were created in British North America, and how the law was "settled ...
Bureau Law in the Occupied South Inquiry The formation of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an unusual moment in American constitutional history ...
Link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Rantoul, Jr. Robert Rantoul, Jr. Robert Rantoul, Jr. (August 5, 1805 #8211; August 7, 1852) was an American ...
McCastle v. Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. Please see the Wikipedia article here JenniferAnderson May 11, 2013 McCastle v. Rollins Environmental Services ...
The Wikipedia article, which already has undergone some editing/merging, is here. The Origins of Parole in New York Introduction The early history of parole in the ...
Takings and the Nineteenth Century Railroad Eaton v. Boston, Concord Montreal R.R. (B., C. M.R.R.): A New Hampshire Supreme Court Decision from 1872. by Stephan ...
SimoneGreenbaum 31 Mar 2013 Background for Primary Source: The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the Continental Congress on May 20, 1785. The adopted version ...
Lynne Stewart's Re Sentencing: #8220;Few Love a Spokesman for the Despised and the Damned #8221; Lynne Stewart, #8220;a left wing radical at heart and a veteran ...
Background This article describes legislative efforts to prevent the slaughter of the American Bison as it was hunted to near extinction during the latter half of ...
Please see the Wikipedia article here. Commonwealth v. Hunt Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) was a landmark legal decision issued by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial ...
My Wikipedia article can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act for the Better Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Merchants Service Brief introduction ...
Scholarly Debate on the South Improvement Company #8217;s Role in the Cleveland Massacre The elements of the Grinnell standard for what constitutes an illegal monopoly ...
History of Standard Oil: The Cleveland Massacre The Cleveland Massacre refers to a three month period in 1872 when Standard Oil Company acquired virtually all its ...
Hello all, The subject of my work, "Immigration to Iowa," has been incorporated into the "History of Iowa" Wikipedia page. This can be found at http://en.wikipedia ...
Racial Classifications of #8220;Black #8221; and #8220;White #8221; in American Legal and Social History Update: The Wikipedia Article, awaiting review, can be found ...
Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program The Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) is a United States federal statutory program. ...
Secondary Sources Please see the text of the Wikipedia article, now approved, here. Primary Sources English Intellectual Antecedents to United States Prison Systems ...
A History of the United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York This article surveys the history of the U.S. Attorney #8217;s Office for the ...
Please see the Wikipedia article here. LizzieGomez 16 Dec 2012 Myra Clark Gaines Myra Clark Gaines (June 30, 1804 (?) January 9, 1885) was an American socialite ...
My wikipedia project may be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Judicial System of the State of Deseret RyanBingham 24 ...
Holmes Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned O. W. Holmes, "The Path of the Law" (1897) From O. W. Holmes, The Common Law (1881) The Western ...
Marshall: Civil Rights and the New Public Law Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman Co. , 312 U.S. 496 (1941) ...
Legal Realism and the Reaction How a hermaneutic turn in the law nearly made the folklore of capitalism obsolete. How a heroic band of conservatives invented neutral ...
Brandeis, Warren: the Rise and Fall of Civil Liberties Where the modern civil libertarian came from, who killed him, and where he's buried. Readings Access materials ...
A New Deal for the American People How democracy and war saved capitalism and white supremacy from themselves. Where modernity came from. How the Empire conquered ...
Bread and Roses, and the Iron Heel The real cataclysm of the release of energy principal: the confrontation of labor and capital during a depression caused by the ...
Progressivism and Legal Anti Formalism How the intellectual effects of Darwinism and the social effects of the struggle between capital and labor changed the public ...
The Age of Bitter Irony How a grieving society came to the brink of class warfare and fashioned law for industrial semi democracy. Readings Access materials on the ...
Reconstruction and Reimperialization How the real American Revolution failed, and how the Empire did what Karl Marx recommended. Readings Access materials on the ...
War, the Constitution, and Emancipation The end of the first imperial constitution and the beginning of the actual, abortive American Revolution. Readings Access ...
Collision of Worlds How 660,000 people and the Constitution died. Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Somerset v. Stewart , 1 Lofft 1 ...
Codification and the Common Law The ideology of democratic imperialism that we call Jacksonian was not hospitable to the common law. The resulting tensions shaped ...
Marshall Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Marbury v. Madison (1803) M'Culloch v. Maryland (1819) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Suggested Notes ...
What's Not in the Constitution Like all complex and decisive political processes, the Constitutional Convention dealt with some of its most important and divisive ...
Constitution Making Looking Backward How the possibility of an American Revolution was prevented, and the past was securely embodied in a conservative future by the ...
Transition of Federalisms: The Revolution that Wasn't Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Selected documents from Sources and Documents Illustrating ...
Colonial Policy and Colonial Constitutionalism How Whitehall created the Empire of the United States. Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned ...
Empire The federal nature of the first British Empire, and in particular the understanding of the British North Americans about that federalism, is at the root of ...
Commercial Development Here we consider how the commercial systems of British North America developed, and how the law of mercantile commerce was shaped by North American ...
Status, Class and Patriarchy Interpreting the colonial societies and their legal orders. Readings Access materials on the Readings page. Assigned Edmund Morgan ...
Projects Work in this course is undertaken in the form of projects, which are collections of scanned primary source documents, critically introduced and analytically ...
Projects Work in this course is undertaken in the form of projects, which are collections of scanned primary source documents, critically introduced and analytically ...
UPDATE Nov. 28, 2011: This is the link to my article on Wikipedia itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New Orleans dock workers and unionization I thought I'd post ...
The wikipedia portion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border Disputes Between New York and Connecticut I have also attached the charter for Connecticut colony. It needs ...
Hi Everyone. Here is my page thus far: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Early Firearms Regulations in New York State ...
NOTE: DECEMBER 21, 2011 I've put the 'final' version of my class project at RitaTrivediDockworkersProjectForClassFinal. The PDFs of my sources are available attachments ...
So here's my glass case: My wikipedia article (it's still in my user page, I don't understand how to move it to the "real" wikipedia page. Can anyone help me?) gives ...
NicholasRodriguez 25 Nov 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal realism My focus is the Legal Realist critique of the Market Economy, but I am also filling out this ...
After long delay, please see my entry on Nationality Law in the American Colonies at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality Law in the American Colonies I welcome ...
On October 4, 1842, George Latimer and his wife, Rebecca, escaped from Norfolk, Virginia. The pair hid beneath the deck of a northbound ship that took them to Baltimore ...
Hey all. I've attached the draft of my additions to the wiki as a word document, to better specify my contributions from the underlying wiki page found at: http:/ ...
Here is my first batch of documents. Sorry that they're attached into one file. I'll split it up accordingly. It is a selection of material from various Collectively ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ChristmanRice/The Charter of Liberties and Privileges This is my wiki article on my userpage; haven't officially submitted it yet ...
Finally, it can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Prohibition I am going to replace section 4.5 (prohibition) on this webpage (http://en.wikipedia.org ...
The Moynihan Report: Public Reception and Legacy Contents of Report The Negro Family: A Case for Action, commonly known as the The Moynihan Report, was written by ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aps2148/Quaker trusteeship I attached a link to the first draft of my wikipedia project. I'm having trouble figuring out how to ...
Hey all, I have attached the full versions of the sources which I put up in sample recently. The first three are all variations on the same idea, being different Collectively ...
December 21, 2011: Below is the text of the 'final' version of my class project on the New Orleans dockworkers and the 1907 general strike. I've included the PDFs ...
DECEMBER 9, 2011 NOTE: I've added the latest version of the project as another Word document attachment to this page. This version has a bit more in the way of educated ...
DEC. 3, 2011 I've added 3 PDFs to the group (that I've referenced in the new draft text on my RitaTrivediDockworkersProjectForClassDrafts page). Also, one of the ...
American Legal History Web Topic List Topics by Hierarchical Relationship open all close all %TREEBROWSER{ theme "file" shared "tree" title "" openTo ...
Here is the draft text of my Wikipedia project; I've pasted it in from the Word file that was attached to the main page before this. The text formatting is somewhat ...
The Constitutional Law dialogue is about these brilliant, special, unusual people whose characteristic is that their gaze pierces the immensity of the future. And ...
Some of my thoughts/comments on the reading (pre class) please jump in on a discussion/comments/etc. 1. I found it a bit puzzling that in the Proclamation of 1763 ...
Although we've been cautioned against assuming that maps from the period we're studying look even remotely like maps today, I thought it would be helpful to make a ...
5/15/2010: I have completed my project for the purposes of this class, and it is ready to be graded. However, I might continue to add or upload any relevant information ...
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