61. U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1801-1850 > Senate Tries for the third time in its brief history, the Senate Its trial managers hoped to prove that Chase had and unjust way by announcing his legal interpretation on http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Tries_Justice.htm

Home Historical Minutes November 30, 1804 Senate Tries Supreme Court Justice On November 30, 1804, for the third time in its brief history, the Senate began an impeachment trial. The first trial in 1798 and 1799 had involved a senator previously expelled on grounds of treason. Because that senator no longer served, the Senate dismissed the case citing lack of jurisdiction. The second trial, in 1804, removed a federal judge for reasons of drunkenness and probable insanity. More than the first two proceedings, however, third trial challenged the Senate to explore the meaning of impeachable crimes. Samuel Chase had served on the Supreme Court since 1796. A staunch Federalist and a volcanic personality, Chase showed no willingness to tone down his bitter partisan rhetoric after Jeffersonian Republicans gained control of Congress in 1801. Representative John Randolph of Virginia orchestrated impeachment proceedings against Chase, declaring he would wipe the floor with the obnoxious justice. The House accused Chase of refusing to dismiss biased jurors and of excluding or limiting defense witnesses in two politically sensitive cases. Its trial managers hoped to prove that Chase had "behaved in an arbitrary, oppressive, and unjust way by announcing his legal interpretation on the law of treason before defense counsel had been heard." Highlighting the political nature of this case, the final article of impeachment accused the justice of continually promoting his political agenda on the bench, thereby "tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of an electioneering partizan."

62. Social Studies Development Center The Supreme Court historical Society This organization, founded in 1974 The Timetable of World legal history. Titanic Virtual Trial Created by a law firm as part http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/civlinks.htm

Civic Education, Law-Related Education, and Government Links Teaching and Research Resources Government Information Teaching, Research, and Citizen Group Resources Active Citizenship: Empowering America's Youth Features a 17-lesson curriculum unit for grades 7-12; information about citizenship education, civic values, service learning, and in-service programs on all these topics. The American President This is the official Web site for the PBS documentary series by the same name. It features lesson plans based on the series; in-depth information about all 41 U.S. Presidents; learning activities; historical documents; essays on a wide range of presidential topics; a political magazine by and for students; and a section devoted to following and learning about the 2000 election. Anatomy of a Murder: A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System Visitors to this site can follow the fictional story of a murder trial, complete with legally accurate details. Provided to enhance the educational purposes of this site are an introduction to the legal justice system, a glossary, information on Supreme Court cases, and actual documents filled out during an arrest. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

63. Native American Sovereignty On Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, And Documents series from ABCCLIO, Native American Sovereignty On Trial examines the history of court litigation and important legal controversies involving http://www.legallibraries.com/Native_American_Sovereignty_on_Trial_A_Handbook_Wi

Native American Sovereignty on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, and Documents (On Trial) Native American Sovereignty on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, and Documents (On Trial) by Authors: Bryan H. Wildenthal , Charles L. Zelden Released: April, 2003 ISBN: 1576076245 Hardcover Sales Rank: List price: Our price: Book > Native American Sovereignty on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, and Documents (On Trial) > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: Native American Sovereignty on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws, and Documents (On Trial) > Customer Review #1: An A-Z list of crucial individuals, laws, and ideas The latest in the "On Trial" series from ABC-CLIO, Native American Sovereignty On Trial examines the history of court litigation and important legal controversies involving Native American treaty rights, especially concerning the historical background and modern-day implications of Native American sovereignty. Painstakingly compiled by Bryan H. Wildenthal (Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California), Native American Sovereignty On Trial presents primary source documents such as court decisions and rulings, as well as an A-Z list of crucial individuals, laws, and ideas, a chronology. All this and more fill the pages of this informed and informative casebook which is especially commended for inclusion with Native American Studies reading lists and American Jurisprudence Studies reference collections.

64. Summer For The Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate Over Scien our century s most contentious dramas the Scopes trial and the material with the author s keen legal and historical of this pivotal event in American history. http://www.bookfinder.us/review7/0674854292.html

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion AUTHOR: Edward J. Larson ISBN: 0674854292 Compare price for this book History Historical Study Editorial Review from Amazon Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion - Book Review, by Edward J. Larson Amazon.com The New York Times Book Review, Rodney A. Smolla Edward J. Larson provides an excellent cultural history of the case in Summer for the Gods, though his book is wanting as trial drama.... Bryan's and Darrow's ghosts still haunt us, and the Scopes trial still holds resonance, as we continue to litigate the role of religion in public life and the power of the state to prescribe what shall be taught in public schools. Read Summer for the Gods for that well-told story. For the trial of the century, rent the movie. The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr. Edward Larson's training both in legal history and in the history of science serves him well in Summer for the Gods.... Larson unlocks the past and renders it gracefully accessible in a narrative style that is easy to follow, despite the complexity of the intellectual currents and counter-currents of his theme. From Booklist Few courtroom dramas have captured the nation's attention so fully as that played out in 1925 when Tennessee prosecuted John Scopes for teaching evolutionary science in the classroom. Seventy years later, Larson gives us the drama again, tense and gripping: the populist rhetoric of Scopes' chief accuser, William Jennings Bryan; the mordant wit of his defender, Clarence Darrow; the caustic satire of the trial's most prominent chronicler, H. L. Mencken. But as a legal and historical scholar, Larson moves beyond the titanic personalities to limn the national and cultural forces that collided in that Dayton courtroom: agnosticism versus faith; North versus South; liberalism versus conservatism; cosmopolitanism versus localism. Careful and evenhanded analysis dispels the mythologies and caricatures in film and stage versions of the trial, leaving us with a far clearer picture of the cultural warfare that still periodically erupts in our classes and courts.

65. English Historical Review: The Trial In History. Vol. I: Judicial Tribunals In E of the nineteenth century, students of the history of the Trial was not understood as it is today as an evidence from record sources and legal treatises for http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0293/is_480_119/ai_113804472

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66. American Women's History: Legal Sources Guides to Using legal Sources. of Congress Guide for the Study of Women s history and Culture Women s Rights on Trial 101 Historic trials from Anne Hutchinson http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-courtcases.html

American Women's History: A Research Guide Home Page Last Update: 8/14/2002 Suggestion Box Guides to Using Legal Sources Craig, Pamela Barnes. "Law Library of Congress." In American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States , edited by Sheridan Harvey, Janice Ruth, Barbara Natson, Sara Day, and Evelyn Sinclair. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001. Encyclopedias Cushman, Clare, ed. Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality . Washington, D.C.: CQ Press and The Supreme Court Historical Society, 2001. This illustrated guide includes overviews of more than 75 Supreme Court cases. Topics covered include "Jury Duty," "Sex Discrimination," "Discrimination in the Workplace," "Sexual Harassment," "Pregnancy and Childbirth," and "Reproductive Rights." Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth, and Kathryn Cullen-Dupont, eds. Women's Rights on Trial: 101 Historic Trials from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute Cadets . Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. 478p. Mikula, Mark, and L. Mpho Mabunda, eds.

67. Wisconsin State Law Library - Historic Documents archives, rare books, historical photographs, etc. of legal documents including trial transcripts, indictments Wisconsin s legal history (State Bar of Wisconsin http://wsll.state.wi.us/lawhistory.html

Historic Documents Wisconsin State Law Library Ask A Site Search Dred Scott Dred Scott Case U.S. Supreme Court Decision, 60 U.S. 393 (Text) U.S. Supreme Court Decision, 60 U.S. 393 Constitution For the Constitution, its history, and related historical documents, see Constitutions Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation (Image) Lincoln Papers: Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address Gettysburg Address Gettysburg Address (Image, Text, History, Printer-Friendly File) Official Invitation, First Draft, Dedication Ceremony United States Statutes at Large 1789-1875 Volumes (Image) Selected Statutes of the United States (Text) Early United States Statutes at Large, a Research Guide History and Description of the United States Statutes at Large Document Collections AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Multimedia collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress Americana Collection. Over 7 million items from more than 100 multimedia collections can be searched by keyword or browsed by topic. Collections related to political science and the law include: Abraham Lincoln Papers Collection of digitized, full-text United States congressional documents dating from the Continental Congress to the 42nd Congress. Documents include the

68. Jury Trials For The Classroom 9 Bringing the Scottsboro Boys Into the US history Classroom Portfolio SAM SHEPPARD Sam Sheppard trials An Impartial Jury legal Requirement or http://www.crfc.org/americanjury/trial_classroom.html

var thisPage="trial_classroom.html"; THE AMERICAN JURY BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY About the Project Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago ... National Endowment for the Humanities AN ONLINE RESOURCE GUIDE Jury Trials for the Classroom Lessons and Activities Jury Trials for the Classroom Resources from the Chicago Historical Society ... Site Index HISTORY AND PURPOSE Origins of the American Jury Formation of the American Jury STRUCTURE Introduction to Trial by Jury Grand Jury Right of the Accused to Trial by Jury Jury Selection: Voir Dire ... Jury Deliberation ISSUES Evidence Jury Nullification Jury Trials and the Media Jury Damage Awards ... Comparative Jury Systems FUTURE Jury in American Society Jury Reform Future of the American Jury This section of "The American Jury" is devoted to jury trials that participating teachers researched, designed, and field-tested in their classrooms. It also includes lessons that integrate a jury component into mock trials based on historical or hypothetical fact patterns. LIST OF TRIALS Chicago 7 Civil War Comparative Trials Haymarket ... Sam Sheppard CHICAGO 7 Chicago 7 Trial Resources from the Chicago Historical Society CIVIL WAR The Trial of Henry Wirz COMPARATIVE TRIALS The American Jury: Four Cases in Legal and Historical Perspective Additional Resources HAYMARKET Analyzing the Haymarket Riot Resources from the Chicago Historical Society Good Men and True? Lesson on the Voir Dire in the Haymarket Trial

69. Legal History Of American Marijuana Prohibition - Table Of Contents OF KNOWLEDGE AN INQUIRY INTO THE legal history OF AMERICAN footnote that someone should attempt a history of the Seizure; 2. Entrapment. D. The Pro Forma Trial. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm

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70. FAQs And Web Resources On The Impeachment Process Impeachment on the Background history of Impeachment Cornell s legal Information Institute impeachment backgrounder provides an Trial Managers Brief on the Articles of http://www.abanet.org/publiced/impeach_links.html

You currently do not have JavaScript enabled in your web browser. The ABA website relies on JavaScript for display purposes. To fully experience the ABA site, please enable javascript. FAQs and Web Resources on the Impeachment Process Impeachment Links JURIST JURIST's ever-growing site of resources contains selected links pertaining to all areas of impeachment, including definition of, historical and constitutional contexts, procedures, Supreme Court cases and the current Clinton controversy. The site also features a section of links to scholarly literature on the subject. JURIST has created "mini-guides" to organize its links to sites for Senate impeachment trials and censure. Following are some of the more outstanding links featured on JURIST's site: Senate Impeachment Trial Rules This document, revised in 1986, is part of the Senate's Rules and Manual of the Senate and outlines the procedures, specified in 26 rules, to be followed by the Senate during an impeachment trial. Legal Information Institute Cornell's Legal Information Institute impeachment backgrounder provides an in-depth look at impeachment, using the text of the Constitution and historical practice. It also includes links to sites for the

71. Amistad At Mystic Seaport to the revolt and subsequent trial of enslaved characters involved in the two legal disputes arising Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history The Gilder http://www.amistad.org/

Amistad at Mystic Seaport Exploring Amistad The Mystic Seaport site, Exploring Amistad , explores the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how we make history of it. Amistad America, Inc. Amistad America, Inc. built a recreation of the freedom schooner Amistad at Mystic Seaport. Keel laying was on March 8, 1998 which was the nearest weekend day to March 9, the date the Supreme Court handed down its decision in favor of the Amistad Africans. Construction photos and more details are available at the Amistad America site. Amistad CD-ROM Project Cinegram Media and Mystic Seaport have developed a CD-ROM "The Amistad incident" available through the Mystic Seaport Museum Store. The Amistad Friendship Quilt Project The Amistad Friendship Quilt Project is a community effort to provide imaginative quilts for the bunks of the schooner Amistad . Quilt blocks were be created and contributed by individuals from around the world, then assembled and donated to the ship. This effort, promoted by Montgomery College in Maryland, Amistad America, and Mystic Seaport, reflects a primary goal of the Amistad project, to unite people of diverse cultural backgrounds in the achievement of a common goal.

72. Supreme Court Queensland - Supreme Court History Program papers relating to the law and legal profession, but 50,000 pages of transcript from the trial, the full available via the Supreme Court history Program website http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/schp/collections/

Historical Collections A significant component of the Supreme Court History Program’s efforts to preserve legal history is through the collection and preservation of significant documents and items of legal memorabilia. The Supreme Court Library currently holds a number of special collections, which have been built up from donations and consist of a wide array of items ranging from manuscripts and diaries to photographs and legal dress. These items are used for displays and are also an important resource available to researchers of legal history. Details of each collection are listed below. Large Collections The Woolcock collection The Douglas Diaries The Lilley family collection The McPherson collection ... The Sir John Latham Papers and Sir John Barry Papers Smaller Collections Tokyo War Crimes Trials Sir Roslyn Philp's Judgements MacDonnells collection Joan Priest collection of documentation used in writing a biography of Sir Harry Gibbs ... Queensland Parliament donation of documentation relating to disagreements between Lutwyche J and the Queensland Legislative Council Large collections The Woolcock collection Donated by Mrs Dorothy Woolcock, these are items relating to the life of the Honourable John Laskey Woolcock. Woolcock went to Sydney University, where he completed an Arts degree. This was the start of a long and productive career, which included a stint as Griffith’s private secretary. In this role, he accompanied Griffith overseas and to several

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75. Irving's War - Introduction work that has been researched and written about that horrific period of history. There are certain problems in dealing with this trial as a legal event. http://www.holocaust-history.org/irvings-war/

by Yale F. Edeiken From January 11, 2000, through March 16, 2000, an extraordinary trial captioned "Irving v. Penguin Books and Lipstadt" took place in London. The Holocaust was not on trial in London. Neither was this case merely about whether statements made in Prof. Lipstadt's book "Denying the Holocaust" (1993) about David Irving were false and defamatory. This trial was about the freedom to criticize bigotry masquerading as scholarship. This case was nothing other than a single battle in a war waged by David Irving to silence his critics. In the sense that a historical event like the Holocaust can be put "on trial," the Holocaust has been in that position since the IMT trial at Nuremberg and it has withstood all challenges. The fact that the Third Reich engaged in the planned genocide known as the Holocaust has been established in hundreds of civil and criminal trials under American, British, French, Canadian, German and Israeli law in the half century since the end of World War II. None of the fraudulent allegations of the lunatic fringe which denies the Holocaust has even been established as worthy of belief in any of those trials. These articles do not deal with the issues, direct or indirect, of that trial. They are about the legal realities of the trial and reasons why David Irving failed to prove his case. It is important because of the penchant of Irving and his followers to twist and distort not only the history of the Holocaust but of their battles against it. The spinning of what happened in that courtroom in London began even before the verdict was announced. David Irving's final argument was not even addressed to the court, but to the lunatic fringe that was already proclaiming that Irving won the trial and would be deprived of victory only by the dishonesty of the legal system.

76. Law Resources - Refdesk.com Organization; Ipso Facto links to legal history and legal a timeline and coverage of the trial being held Self-Help Law Center - online legal assistance for http://www.refdesk.com/factlaw.html

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77. Legal History Reading List, Preliminary Kluger, Richard, Simple Justice The history of Brown v Solomon The d Hauteville Case and legal Experience in Summer for the Gods The Scopes Trial and America http://plaza.ufl.edu/edale/Legal History reading list.htm

20 April 2004 Legal History reading list, preliminary The following are, by and large, fundamental books that anyone doing legal history should read; most other books build on or respond to these works. (Many of these are older works because my intention has been to provide the foundation upon which more recent studies have been based.) I've arranged the list into three main groups: first, there are some basic studies which provide an overview of the field; second I have set out some books in a basic chronology; and third, I have put some books under topical headings. Many of the books, obviously, fit into more than one slot, so you should skim through all the sections to see if there are books in one that are relevant to others. Overviews Friedman, Lawrence M., American Law in the Twentieth Century Friedman, Lawrence M., Crime and Punishment in American History Friedman, Lawrence M., History of American Law (2d edition, 1985). Hall, Kermit, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History Urofsky , Melvin and Paul Finkelman The March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States , two volumes (2002).

78. The Illinois History Resource Page Lincoln s legal Career in Illinois. The 1969 Chicago Seven Trial. history of Bridgeport and the Origin of the Illinois Michigan Canal. http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sorensen/hist.html

The Illinois History Resource Page Welcome to Illinois' First History and Government Resource Page Established by Mark W. Sorensen on December 12, 1995. INDEX OF TOPICS The State's Symbols, Slogans, Song and Seal Government Offices, Elected Officials and Laws in Illinois Historical Topics and Maps History of Women's Suffrage in Illinois and USA ... Towns in Illinois For non-history Factoid information about the weather, average temperature, highest point, population, statistics, rate of unemployment, etc. contact the Illinois State Library reference service or call their Information Line at (217) 782-7596. Also check Help with School Work: State Symbols, History, Genealogy, Fourth Grade Reports, History Fair before you write me for help. The word "ILLINOIS" is the French form of the Algonquin name ILLINI which means "superior men." It is how some native Americans in this area referred to themselves. Information about Illinois Government and the State Capitol: Official State of Illinois Home Page or Governor Rod R. Blagojevich

79. Trial Jury Reform HTML Version or Menu history of Trial by Jury, William Forsyth. (1875) — Tells story of how it evolved, as seen by a legal scholar who missed the point http://www.constitution.org/jury/pj/pj-us.htm

Trial Jury Reform The jury system was made part of our Constitution because the Founders did not trust judges, but ever since the Constitution was adopted, there has been a struggle between judges and juries, with judges trying to confine juries to deciding the "facts" in a case, leaving the judges to decide the "law". In most criminal cases today, the constitutional and legal issues are not argued in the presence of the jury, and the jury does not get to read the legal briefs filed in the case. Judges try to intimidate juries into following their instructions, which are only advisory, and prosecute attorneys for contempt if they try to inform jurors of their right and power to decide the law as well as the "facts" in the case. In response, reformers are working to make sure jurors know their duty. Click on the button to get the indicated file format: Format HTML Text WP PDF RTF Word Image Local Remote Principles of Jury Reform You are summoned for jury duty If you are called for jury duty in a criminal trial ... Original Intent , a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, by Rep Ron Paul (R-TX), August 1, 1997. Discusses the original intent of the Framers concerning juries.

80. Trial And Error: Capital Punishment In U.S. History Trial and Error Capital Punishment in US history. Although there are valuable sociological and legal studies of penalty, there is no detailed history of the http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5420

Printer-Friendly Version Trial and Error: Capital Punishment in U.S. History by William S. McFeely The death penalty has not been a constant in American history. It has undergone numerous changes and reforms in the past two centuries, falling in and out of public favor. Immediately after the American Revolution, some legislators removed the death penalty as punishment for many crimes. In the genteel nineteenth century, government officials went even further, ending public hangings that once entertained large crowds of curious onlookers. Officials deemed it more seemly to conduct executions in prisons, away from public scrutiny. In the 1840s reformers called for the elimination of the death penalty. In 1846, the Michigan legislature made that state the first government in the world to remove the death penalty altogether. Historian Louis Masur has argued in that the death penalty might well have ended in the whole nation if the Civil War, and the brutalizing of society that it engendered, had been averted. Other reforms have influenced the methods of putting prisoners to death. With the advent of electricity at the close of the nineteenth century, the electric chair was introduced as a more humane alternative to hanging. Recently, with similar motivation, many states have adopted the practice of lethal injection, where a deadly chemical is delivered intravenously. Lethal injection is seen as less stressful to the prisoner and the witnesses than the electric chair.

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