John Jay

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Pellew, George

History

Franklin Classics

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time.  It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm13085374Boston :  Houghton, Mifflin, c1898. ix, 354 p., [4] leaves of plates :  ill., ports. ;  20 cm.

John Jay (American Statesmen)

Americas

Ams Pr Inc

Woman and the Commonwealth: or A question of expediency

Trieste Publishing

John Jay (American Statesmen Series)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NEGOTIATOR OF PEACE: THE ATTITUDE OP FRANCE IN 1782. The instructions to the American commissioners, appointed to treat with Great Britain, were based on the theory that, without the active cooperation of the French court, the States would be at the mercy of England, that France was engaged to procure them the best terms obtainable, and that gratitude and policy alike necessitated absolute confidence in the Count de Vergennes, French minister for foreign affairs. For the successful conduct of the negotiations it was essential for the commissioners to determine whether this theory of Congress was correct. The facts now known show us that it was incorrect. France, by her treaty with Spain, had formed obligations inconsistent with the interests of the States. By it the object of

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Chelsea House Pub

Military

John Jay: -1898

Cornell University Library

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Woman and the Commonwealth: Or, A Question of Expediency

BiblioLife

In Castle and Cabin: or Talks in Ireland in 1887

Europe

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