Mary Sarah Bilder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1181219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Sarah Bilder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilder |
| SIGNATURE | BILDER M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2632-8760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Ordeal and the Constitution
Bernard Bailyn's The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson demonstrated that losers provide a method to recover the historical reality of people who did not know which political and constitutional arguments would ultimately win. Applying this insight, this essay argues that the meanings ascribed to “The Constitution” arose after the 1787 Constitutional Convention
The Case of the Piglet's Paternity
Judge Jon C. Blue's intriguing account of trials from the seventeenth-century New Haven Colony will fascinate readers. The book diverges from the approach that professional historians have taken in discussing early colonial trials and raises new questions about these sources. Two interests animate the book. First, Blue seeks to render the trials readable and to restore cases that were excised from printed accounts. Second, he offers commentary on…
James Madison, Law Student and Demi-Lawyer
We think of James Madison as a political theorist, legislative drafter, and constitutional interpreter. Recent scholarship has fought fiercely over the nature of his political thought. Unlike other important early national leaders—John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson—law has been seen as largely irrelevant to Madison's intellectual biography. Madison, however, studied law and, at least in …
Idea or Practice
Judicial review may be the most publicly contested aspect of American constitutionalism. When courts void legislation, they implicitly seem to strike at the heart of the principle of separation of powers. The act inherently suggests that the elected legislature is not always the legitimate representative of the people and that democratic majoritarianism is not the fundamental principle of American politics. Because judicial review can be describe…
The King's Three Faces
The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 Get access McConville Brendan, The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Mary Sarah Bilder Mary Sarah Bilder Boston College Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 351–353, https://doi…
The Shrinking Back
The Article argues that quotations of copyrighted material used as "fact" should be protected. The Article explores the relation between the legal law of biography and the literary theory of biography, focusing specifically on the use of unpublished materials in written biographies. The Article surveys the assumptions underlying copyright, fair use, and privacy doctrines. The Article critiques fair use solutions suggested by legal commentary and …
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The Shrinking Back
The Article argues that quotations of copyrighted material used as "fact" should be protected. The Article explores the relation between the legal law of biography and the literary theory of biography, focusing specifically on the use of unpublished materials in written biographies. The Article surveys the assumptions underlying copyright, fair use, and privacy doctrines. The Article critiques fair use solutions suggested by legal commentary and …
The King's Three Faces
The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 Get access McConville Brendan, The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Mary Sarah Bilder Mary Sarah Bilder Boston College Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 351–353, https://doi…
Idea or Practice
Judicial review may be the most publicly contested aspect of American constitutionalism. When courts void legislation, they implicitly seem to strike at the heart of the principle of separation of powers. The act inherently suggests that the elected legislature is not always the legitimate representative of the people and that democratic majoritarianism is not the fundamental principle of American politics. Because judicial review can be describe…
James Madison, Law Student and Demi-Lawyer
We think of James Madison as a political theorist, legislative drafter, and constitutional interpreter. Recent scholarship has fought fiercely over the nature of his political thought. Unlike other important early national leaders—John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson—law has been seen as largely irrelevant to Madison's intellectual biography. Madison, however, studied law and, at least in …
The Case of the Piglet's Paternity
Judge Jon C. Blue's intriguing account of trials from the seventeenth-century New Haven Colony will fascinate readers. The book diverges from the approach that professional historians have taken in discussing early colonial trials and raises new questions about these sources. Two interests animate the book. First, Blue seeks to render the trials readable and to restore cases that were excised from printed accounts. Second, he offers commentary on…
The Ordeal and the Constitution
Bernard Bailyn's The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson demonstrated that losers provide a method to recover the historical reality of people who did not know which political and constitutional arguments would ultimately win. Applying this insight, this essay argues that the meanings ascribed to “The Constitution” arose after the 1787 Constitutional Convention
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