David Thomas Konig
Biographic Data
| ID | 1111192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Thomas Konig |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Konig |
| SIGNATURE | KONIG D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Case for Repealing the Second Amendment? The Historical Barriers to Constitutional Change
The controversy surrounding the Second Amendment-"the right of the people to keep and bear arms"-is, to a large extent, historical in nature, redolent of other matters in this country's legal and constitutional past. But the historical analogies that might support the Amendment's repeal do not permit easy conclusions. The issue demands that legal historians venture beyond familiar territory to confront unavoidable problems at the intersection of …
The Second Creation
The presidential oath of office that George Washington took in 1789 prescribed that he “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It was a command more easily stated than followed because, as Jonathan Gienapp explains in this erudite and provocative volume, it was far from clear what, exactly, Washington and others sworn to office were bound to support. “People were unclear about not only what the Constitution meant but…
Portrait of a Patriot
These extraordinary volumes complete the magnum opus of the legal scholar Daniel R. Coquillette and do full justice to the legal career of Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744–1775), known as “the Patriot” to distinguish him from other Josiah Quincys who figured prominently in Boston's history. His father, “the Colonel” (1709–1784), served under George Washington in the American Revolution, and his son, “the President” (1772–1864), was president of Harvard Co…
James Madison and Common-Law Constitutionalism
In 1789 James Madison and Thomas Jefferson engaged in one of their many exchanges on constitutionalism. As with other Jeffersonian flights of philosophy, the younger Madison had to rein in the excesses of his senior partner and collaborator. The issue at hand was Jefferson's famous opinion “ that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living .” So confident was Jefferson in the truth of this idea that he called it “self-evident.” Their exchange has…
The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677
Arms and the Man
Just as Virgil linked “arms and the man” in his epic history of Rome's origins, Americans have linked the bearing of arms with their own national origins. Regardless of other uses to which his image has been put, the Minuteman who stands guard at Concord reminds us that he stood his ground in 1775 to stop British regulars from seizing assembled weapons at Concord and disarming the Middlesex County militia. Robert Churchill provides us with an ent…
Influence and Emulation in the Constitutional Republic of Letters
I am glad that the Review has provided a Forum for advancing discussion of the “rapidly evolving field of Second Amendment scholarship,” as Richard Uviller and William Merkel so aptly describe it. The field is evolving so rapidly, in fact, that I had no chance to consult their excellent book on the subject when writing this article. Having now had the luxury—and great benefit—of reading it in preparing my reply to their comments, I can only cheer…
The Second Amendment
The present essay seeks to work at the intersection of law and history, a meeting point where interpretation of the Second Amendment has been more characterized by collision than confluence. Analysis brought to bear on the historical meaning of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” has coalesced around two competing normative interpretations: either that the amendment guarantees a personal, individual right to bear arms, or that it appl…
A Republic for the Ages
Anthony Chase — Law and History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Contingency and Constitutionalism in Colonial New York
Of all the comments made by British politicians to describe the United States Constitution, Gladstone's remains the most difficult to deny: by calling it “the most wonderful work ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man” he covered the true origins of the document in a mantle of consensus, well understood and coherent in intent, and epitomizing the human capacity for reasoned progress. All of these attributes have little favor among Americ…
American Scripture
Devising Liberty
Journal Article Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic Get access Konig David Thomas, ed., Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xi, 383 pp. $45.00. Eric M. Freedman Eric M. Freedman Hofstra Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41…
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance,…
Devising Liberty
Devising Liberty
Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Ed. by David Thomas Konig. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. xiv, 383 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8047-2536-5.) Get access Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1001–1002,…
Devising Liberty
Embattled Bench
A Summary View of the Law of British America
Bo Y i85 I the courthouse of Fredericksburg, Virginia, erected in the I730S for Spotsylvania County, no longer suited the needs and dignity of the city government. Besides its evident disrepair, its colonial style was now regarded as outre and offensive to upholders of the august nature of the law as envisioned in antebellum America. One observer asked how such a building could have been erected in the first place, much less used for the lofty an…
Freedom by Degrees
Journal Article Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath Get access Nash Gary B. Soderlund Jean R., Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. $24.95. David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Washington University in St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume …
Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1776
Puritan Justice and the Indian
Terre d'America e Burocrazia Romana
Journal Article Terre d'America e Burocrazia Romana: Simon Stock, Propaganda Fide e la Colonia di Lord Baltimore a Terranova, 1621–1649. By Luca Codignola. (Venice: Marsilio, 1982. 233 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, and indexes. Paper, L. 18,000.) Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Washington University, St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
"Dale's Laws" and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia
Journal Article “Dale's Laws” and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Associate Professor of History *Washington University in St. Louis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 354–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/844941 Published: 01 October 1982
In English Ways
Journal Article In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century Get access Allen David Grayson, In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century. Chapel Hill, N. C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Published for the Institute of Early American History…
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance,…
The Second Creation
The presidential oath of office that George Washington took in 1789 prescribed that he “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It was a command more easily stated than followed because, as Jonathan Gienapp explains in this erudite and provocative volume, it was far from clear what, exactly, Washington and others sworn to office were bound to support. “People were unclear about not only what the Constitution meant but…
Arms and the Man
Just as Virgil linked “arms and the man” in his epic history of Rome's origins, Americans have linked the bearing of arms with their own national origins. Regardless of other uses to which his image has been put, the Minuteman who stands guard at Concord reminds us that he stood his ground in 1775 to stop British regulars from seizing assembled weapons at Concord and disarming the Middlesex County militia. Robert Churchill provides us with an ent…
The Second Amendment
The present essay seeks to work at the intersection of law and history, a meeting point where interpretation of the Second Amendment has been more characterized by collision than confluence. Analysis brought to bear on the historical meaning of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” has coalesced around two competing normative interpretations: either that the amendment guarantees a personal, individual right to bear arms, or that it appl…
James Madison and Common-Law Constitutionalism
In 1789 James Madison and Thomas Jefferson engaged in one of their many exchanges on constitutionalism. As with other Jeffersonian flights of philosophy, the younger Madison had to rein in the excesses of his senior partner and collaborator. The issue at hand was Jefferson's famous opinion “ that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living .” So confident was Jefferson in the truth of this idea that he called it “self-evident.” Their exchange has…
American Scripture
A Summary View of the Law of British America
Bo Y i85 I the courthouse of Fredericksburg, Virginia, erected in the I730S for Spotsylvania County, no longer suited the needs and dignity of the city government. Besides its evident disrepair, its colonial style was now regarded as outre and offensive to upholders of the august nature of the law as envisioned in antebellum America. One observer asked how such a building could have been erected in the first place, much less used for the lofty an…
"Dale's Laws" and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia
Journal Article “Dale's Laws” and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Associate Professor of History *Washington University in St. Louis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 354–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/844941 Published: 01 October 1982
Federal Courts in the Early Republic
Journal Article Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky, 1789–1816. By Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. ix + 234 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.50.) Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Washington University, St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 3…
Community Custom and the Common Law
Community Custom and the Common Law: Social Change and the Development of Land Law in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Assistant Professor of History *Washington University, St. Louis. The author is grateful for the support of part of this research by a grant from the Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Leg…
Community Custom and the Common Law
Community Custom and the Common Law: Social Change and the Development of Land Law in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Assistant Professor of History *Washington University, St. Louis. The author is grateful for the support of part of this research by a grant from the Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Leg…
Federal Courts in the Early Republic
Journal Article Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky, 1789–1816. By Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. ix + 234 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.50.) Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Washington University, St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 3…
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
Of Courts and Communities
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
Journal Article Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629–1692. By David Thomas Konig. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979. xxi + 215 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.00.) Get access Douglas Greenberg Douglas Greenberg Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 117–118, htt…
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
"Dale's Laws" and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia
Journal Article “Dale's Laws” and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Associate Professor of History *Washington University in St. Louis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 354–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/844941 Published: 01 October 1982
In English Ways
Journal Article In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century Get access Allen David Grayson, In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century. Chapel Hill, N. C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Published for the Institute of Early American History…
Plymouth Court Records 1686-1859
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
Terre d'America e Burocrazia Romana
Journal Article Terre d'America e Burocrazia Romana: Simon Stock, Propaganda Fide e la Colonia di Lord Baltimore a Terranova, 1621–1649. By Luca Codignola. (Venice: Marsilio, 1982. 233 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, and indexes. Paper, L. 18,000.) Get access David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Washington University, St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Puritan Justice and the Indian
Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1776
Freedom by Degrees
Journal Article Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath Get access Nash Gary B. Soderlund Jean R., Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. $24.95. David Thomas Konig David Thomas Konig Washington University in St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume …
A Summary View of the Law of British America
Bo Y i85 I the courthouse of Fredericksburg, Virginia, erected in the I730S for Spotsylvania County, no longer suited the needs and dignity of the city government. Besides its evident disrepair, its colonial style was now regarded as outre and offensive to upholders of the august nature of the law as envisioned in antebellum America. One observer asked how such a building could have been erected in the first place, much less used for the lofty an…
Embattled Bench
Devising Liberty
Devising Liberty
Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Ed. by David Thomas Konig. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. xiv, 383 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8047-2536-5.) Get access Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1001–1002,…
Devising Liberty
Devising Liberty
Journal Article Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic Get access Konig David Thomas, ed., Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xi, 383 pp. $45.00. Eric M. Freedman Eric M. Freedman Hofstra Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41…
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance,…
Contingency and Constitutionalism in Colonial New York
Of all the comments made by British politicians to describe the United States Constitution, Gladstone's remains the most difficult to deny: by calling it “the most wonderful work ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man” he covered the true origins of the document in a mantle of consensus, well understood and coherent in intent, and epitomizing the human capacity for reasoned progress. All of these attributes have little favor among Americ…
American Scripture
Anthony Chase — Law and History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
A Republic for the Ages
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