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A History Of Elector Discretion – Part Two, Michael L. Rosin
A History Of Elector Discretion – Part Two, Michael L. Rosin
Northern Illinois University Law Review
In its opinion in Chiafalo v. Washington, the Supreme Court disposes of the actual history of elector discretion as too inconsequential to merit its serious analysis. A history of elector discretion not only includes a history of the electors who exercised discretion when casting electoral votes, it also includes a history of commentary on the role of electors as the Constitution was created and, more importantly, as Congress was attempting to amend it. The Court almost completely ignores this history. When Congress crafted the Twelfth Amendment in 1803 it recognized that “the right of choice [of president] […] devolve[s] upon” …
Our English Legal Forebearers And Their Contributions To The Practice Of Law And American Jurisprudence: Sir Thomas More, Sir Edward Coke, And Sir William Blackstone, Heather R. Darsie
Our English Legal Forebearers And Their Contributions To The Practice Of Law And American Jurisprudence: Sir Thomas More, Sir Edward Coke, And Sir William Blackstone, Heather R. Darsie
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Article seeks to remind lawyers of the important duty to uphold the law, and how that was shown through the actions of several English and British attorneys from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Beginning with Sir Thomas More, considered as a secular person in this Article, and his refusal to go against what he believed to be the law, to Sir Edward Coke, whose legal judgments assisted early Americans, and ending with Sir William Blackstone, whose careful thinking paved the way for the American legal system. This semi-biographical Article relays the legal changes occurring during the time periods mentioned …