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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
A Tale Of Two Lawyers In Antebellum Cincinnati: Timothy Walker's Last Conversation With Salmon P. Chase, Gordon A. Christenson
A Tale Of Two Lawyers In Antebellum Cincinnati: Timothy Walker's Last Conversation With Salmon P. Chase, Gordon A. Christenson
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Timothy Walker's reputation today is slower to recover the same national stature he achieved while living. He was close to the founding generation, yet believed in law reform and codification to see an end of slavery and stave off chaos from the crowd and popular democracy. For a time, he was a "man of his age" in Cincinnati, where in word and deed he projected the civic republicanism of the founders into a future for the new democrats. There is no public memorial for Walker, though the obelisk monument rises in Spring Grove Cemetery and his bust is displayed prominently …
Youngstown Revisited, A. Christopher Bryant, Carl Tobias
Youngstown Revisited, A. Christopher Bryant, Carl Tobias
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
In 1952, President Harry S. Truman promulgated an Executive Order that authorized federal government seizure of the nation's steel mills to support United States participation in the Korean conflict, but the Supreme Court held that Truman lacked any power to seize the property in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer. In 2001, President George W. Bush promulgated an Executive Order that authorized trial by military commissions of non-U.S. citizens whom the American government suspects of terrorism in domestic cases and concomitantly denied these persons access to the federal courts. This article undertakes an analysis of the Bush Executive …