A Digest of the Law of Actions and Trials at Nisi Prius (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from A Digest of the Law of Actions and Trials at Nisi Prius This objection might alone, perhaps, juftify an attempt to amend it; but a clofer attention pointed out another oonfiderable defect in that work. Moll of the Cafes, fince the beginning of the Reign of George the lid.' are given; 4: cf the term in wbicb they wen; decided. Thefe Cafes are found, with very few exceptions, in Strange, Burrow, or in tbofe other excellent Reporters which the prefent reign. Has produced: And though they derived additional autho rity from being recognized by the learned Judge, by his; having admitted them into a Work to which his Name isf. Prefixed, yet they would certainly be more ufeful to the Profeflion, who might have occafion to refer to them, to' find them in the Reporters, where they are more at large. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800


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In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.










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