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Legal Books, Newspapers, Magazines and Printed Material

November 1787 Newspaper With Numerous Articles Concerning The Proposed New Constitution

Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth Explain and Transmit Constitution to Connecticut Legislature

The 1787 Annual Register

Early Publication of United States Constitution

Available 1st Editions, fine leather and a copy owned by James Fitzjames Stephen , legal scholar and author of General View of the Criminal Law of England

The First Legal Text Published In America!

Subscribers of Two Volumes Included President George Washington & Vice President John Adams, James Madison and many other prominent Founders

1795-6  Legal Treatise by Zephaniah Swift, "The System of Laws of the State of Connecticut," Incorporates English Common Law

 

 

"A DIGEST OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES. AND A TREATISE ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE, AND PROMISSORY NOTES"

 Zephaniah Swift's Very Rare Early 1810 Legal Treatise

 

1840 Encyclopedia Americana with Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story's Law and Jurisprudence Articles


FDR Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace Warns Supreme Court in 1936

 Says Wisdom Will Avert Bloodshed

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Bold Move In 1937 To Reshape the Supreme Court

Legislation Didn't Pass But Court Scared Into Approving New Deal

 

 1939 Justice Frankfurter on Cover For His Court Nomination

1948 Time Magazine Cover of Vice Presidential Candidate Earl Warren


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