Books by "Charles F. Hobson"
9 books found
"A history of the most famous, and infamous, footnotes in leading US Supreme Court cases"--
Delaware Reports
by David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey
1903
"Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding Father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton, resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. And when he turned his attention to entrepreneurial activities on the frontier he was suspected of empire building - and worse." "In the first book dedicated to this important case, Peter Charles Hoffer unveils a cast of characters ensnared by politics and law at the highest levels of government, including President Thomas Jefferson - one of Burr's bitterest enemies - and Chief Justice John Marshall, no fan of either Burr or Jefferson. Hoffer recounts how Jefferson's prosecutors argued that the mere act of discussing an "overt Act of War" - the constitution's definition of treason - was tantamount to committing the act. Marshall, however, ruled that without the overt act, no treasonable action had occurred and neither discussion nor conspiracy could be prosecuted. Subsequent attempts to convict Burr on violations of the Neutrality Act failed as well."--BOOK JACKET.
The Clamor of Lawyers
by Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer
2018 · Cornell University Press
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that key protagonists in the story of American independence were members of the bar with extensive practices. The American Revolution was, in fact, a lawyers’ revolution. Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer broaden our understanding of the role that lawyers played in framing and resolving the British imperial crisis. The revolutionary lawyers, including John Adams’s idol James Otis, Jr., Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson, and Virginians Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with Adams and others, deployed the skills of their profession to further the public welfare in challenging times. They were the framers of the American Revolution and the governments that followed. Loyalist lawyers and lawyers for the crown also participated in this public discourse, but because they lost out in the end, their arguments are often slighted or ignored in popular accounts. This division within the colonial legal profession is central to understanding the American Republic that resulted from the Revolution.
Irrigation Requirements of the Arid and Semiarid Lands of the Columbia River Basin
by Alvah Peterson, Arnon Lewis Mehring, Arthur Frederick Sievers, Carlos Glazier Bates, Charles Ernest Ramser, Charles W. Culpepper, Frederick Lovejoy Wellman, George Wright Hoffman, Howard E. Middleton, Hutzel Metzger, J. E. Patterson, John William Strowbridge, Michael Shapovalov, Oliver I. Snapp, Robert Leslie Shotwell, Roger Dearborn Marsden, Samuel Fortier, Wells Aleck Hutchins, William Henry Black, William John Zaumeyer, William Walter Yothers, Arthur Appleton Young, Arthur Charles Mason, F. Sidney Beecher, G. J. Haeussler, Glenn Arthur Cumings, Joseph Stuart Caldwell, Oscar Roland Mathews, Ray Palmer Teele, W. R. Barger
1931