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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay On The New Federalism And The Original Understanding, Daniel A. Farber
The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay On The New Federalism And The Original Understanding, Daniel A. Farber
Michigan Law Review
At the end of the summer of 1787, the Philadelphia Convention issued two documents. One was the Constitution itself. The other document, now almost forgotten even by constitutional historians, was an official letter to Congress, signed by George Washington on behalf of the Convention. Congress responded with a resolution that the Constitution and "letter accompanying the same" be sent to the state legislatures for submission to conventions in each state.
The Washington letter lacks the detail and depth of some other evidence of original intent. Being a cover letter, it was designed only to introduce the accompanying document rather than …
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, and Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution by Jack Greenberg.
It Isn't About Duck Hunting: The British Origins Of The Right To Arms, David B. Kopel
It Isn't About Duck Hunting: The British Origins Of The Right To Arms, David B. Kopel
Michigan Law Review
A Review of To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis
Cook And The Corporate Shareholder: A Belated Review Of William W. Cook's Publications On Corporations, Alfred F. Conard
Cook And The Corporate Shareholder: A Belated Review Of William W. Cook's Publications On Corporations, Alfred F. Conard
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Treatise on the Law of Stock and Stockholders, as Applicable to Railroad, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Commercial, Business, Turnpike, Bridge, Canal, and Other Private Corporations by William W. Cook
History's Stories, Stephan Landsman
History's Stories, Stephan Landsman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman
English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of Governance And Law, Daniel B. Kosove
English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of Governance And Law, Daniel B. Kosove
Michigan Law Review
A Review of English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law by Robert C. Palmer
The Case For (And Against) Harvard, Robert W. Gordon
The Case For (And Against) Harvard, Robert W. Gordon
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education by William P. LaPiana