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Yet Another Constitutional Crisis?, Keith E. Whittington
Yet Another Constitutional Crisis?, Keith E. Whittington
William & Mary Law Review
The recent presidential impeachment and the postelection controversy each led many to fear that the United States had either already entered or was about to enter a constitutional crisis. Such concerns seem overwrought. This Article will use those events as a foil for examining the nature of constitutional crises. The Article will distinguish two types of constitutional crises and consider several potential crises in American history, clarifying how crises occur and how they can be averted. Constitutional crises in the United States are rare in large part because of the robustness of the country's informal constitutional practices, reasonably good constitutional …
Counting Guns In Early America, James Lindgren, Justin L. Heather
Counting Guns In Early America, James Lindgren, Justin L. Heather
William & Mary Law Review
Probate inventories, though perhaps the best prevailing source for determining ownership patterns in early America, are incomplete and fallible. In this Article, the authors suggest that inferences about who owned guns can be improved by using multivariate techniques and control variables of other common objects. To determine gun ownership from probate inventories, the authors examine three databases in detail-Alice Hanson Jones's national sample of 919 inventories (1774), 149 inventories from Providence, Rhode Island (1679-1726), and Gunston Hall Plantation's sample of 325 inventories from Maryland and Virginia (1740-1810). Also discussed are a sample of 59 probate inventories from Essex County, Massachusetts …
John Marshall Through The Eyes Of An Admirer: John Quincy Adams, Michael Daly Hawkins
John Marshall Through The Eyes Of An Admirer: John Quincy Adams, Michael Daly Hawkins
William & Mary Law Review
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John Marshall, Mcculloch V. Maryland, And "We The People": Revisions In Need Of Revising, Martin S. Flaherty
John Marshall, Mcculloch V. Maryland, And "We The People": Revisions In Need Of Revising, Martin S. Flaherty
William & Mary Law Review
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A Judge For All Seasons, R. Kent Newmyer
A Judge For All Seasons, R. Kent Newmyer
William & Mary Law Review
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Some Alarming Aspects Of The Legacies Of Judicial Review And Of John Marshall, Stephen B. Presser
Some Alarming Aspects Of The Legacies Of Judicial Review And Of John Marshall, Stephen B. Presser
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
John Marshall: Remarks Of October 6, 2000, William H. Rehnquist
John Marshall: Remarks Of October 6, 2000, William H. Rehnquist
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Lives Of John Marshall, Michael J. Gerhardt
The Lives Of John Marshall, Michael J. Gerhardt
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.