Jeffrey K Sawyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1174644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey K Sawyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey K |
| FAMILY NAME | Sawyer |
| SIGNATURE | SAWYER J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Baltimore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty
The major decisions of the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice John Marshall (1801–1835) remain of enduring interest and not just to legal historians and students of constitutional law, despite the vast historical literature already devoted to them. William Davenport Mercer makes a good case that Barron v. Baltimore (1833) is one of the least understood. His painstaking research supports a lively (though sometimes-repetitive) narrati…
Seventeenth-Century Europe: State, Conflict, and the Social Order in Europe, 1598-1700 . Thomas Munck Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe . John Miller
"Benefit of Clergy" in Maryland and Virginia
Many historians know of the famous trial of British soldiers involved in the "Boston Massacre" of March 5, 1770, after which two of the soldiers received "benefit of clergy."' Before the justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, a jury of New Englanders, none of them Bostonians, found all of the defendants innocent of murder. However, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against two defendants, whereupon the convicted soldiers immed…
Judicial Corruption and Legal Reform in Early Seventeenth-Century France
In 1614, an angry pamphleteer writing in the name of six peasants described for his French readers how the country was being taken over by lawyers. Legal officials had swelled their purses, bellies, and heads by gobbling up the rest of France; they were like a growing infestation of “leeches,” he exclaimed passionately, “that suck our blood right to the bone.” These judicial parasites were so disgusting that one should not even consider them a pa…
Judicial Corruption and Legal Reform in Early Seventeenth-Century France
In 1614, an angry pamphleteer writing in the name of six peasants described for his French readers how the country was being taken over by lawyers. Legal officials had swelled their purses, bellies, and heads by gobbling up the rest of France; they were like a growing infestation of “leeches,” he exclaimed passionately, “that suck our blood right to the bone.” These judicial parasites were so disgusting that one should not even consider them a pa…
"Benefit of Clergy" in Maryland and Virginia
Many historians know of the famous trial of British soldiers involved in the "Boston Massacre" of March 5, 1770, after which two of the soldiers received "benefit of clergy."' Before the justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, a jury of New Englanders, none of them Bostonians, found all of the defendants innocent of murder. However, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against two defendants, whereupon the convicted soldiers immed…
Judicial Corruption and Legal Reform in Early Seventeenth-Century France
In 1614, an angry pamphleteer writing in the name of six peasants described for his French readers how the country was being taken over by lawyers. Legal officials had swelled their purses, bellies, and heads by gobbling up the rest of France; they were like a growing infestation of “leeches,” he exclaimed passionately, “that suck our blood right to the bone.” These judicial parasites were so disgusting that one should not even consider them a pa…
"Benefit of Clergy" in Maryland and Virginia
Many historians know of the famous trial of British soldiers involved in the "Boston Massacre" of March 5, 1770, after which two of the soldiers received "benefit of clergy."' Before the justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, a jury of New Englanders, none of them Bostonians, found all of the defendants innocent of murder. However, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against two defendants, whereupon the convicted soldiers immed…
Seventeenth-Century Europe: State, Conflict, and the Social Order in Europe, 1598-1700 . Thomas Munck Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe . John Miller
Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty
The major decisions of the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice John Marshall (1801–1835) remain of enduring interest and not just to legal historians and students of constitutional law, despite the vast historical literature already devoted to them. William Davenport Mercer makes a good case that Barron v. Baltimore (1833) is one of the least understood. His painstaking research supports a lively (though sometimes-repetitive) narrati…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Absolute monarchy (1 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Bill of rights (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Constitution (1 works)