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Considering Zenger: Partisan Politics And The Legal Profession In Provincial New York, Eben Moglen
Considering Zenger: Partisan Politics And The Legal Profession In Provincial New York, Eben Moglen
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History is the narration of the past, and not all valuable history is true. When William Smith, Jr. first wrote his much-admired and widely distributed History of the Province of New-York, in 1756, he ended his narration twenty-four years before his own time, with the arrival of Governor William Cosby in New York on August 1, 1732. In justification of his abrupt termination at this particular point, Smith wrote:
The history of our publick transactions, from this period, to the present time, is full of important and entertaining events, which I leave others to relate. A very near relation …
Revolution And Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion In City Of London V. Wood, Philip A. Hamburger
Revolution And Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion In City Of London V. Wood, Philip A. Hamburger
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In 1702, in an opinion touching upon parliamentary power, Chief Justice Sir John Holt discussed limitations on government in language that has long seemed more intriguing than clear. Undoubtedly, the Chief Justice was suggesting limitations on government – limitations that subsequently have become quite prominent, particularly in America. Yet even the best report of his opinion concerning these constraints has left historians in some doubt as to just what he was saying and why it was significant.
The case in which Chief Justice Holt was so obscure about matters of such importance, City of London v. Wood, revived the …