Archive for September 2011
Burr's Boats, Part II
When Aaron Burr left the office of vice president in March 1805, his future was clouded. President Jefferson had dropped him from the Republican ticket the year before, then Burr…
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Most of Cincinnati’s thousand citizens lined the banks of the Ohio River on April 27, 1801, to watch one of the wonders of the age. A great new sailing ship,…
Read MoreMeeting McCullough
Last Tuesday night, I attended a lecture on the Constitution by David McCullough at the Capitol Visitors Center. (He’s the one on the right in the photo.) The event was…
Read MoreThe Lesson of Aaron Burr to the President: Beware of Nonpartisanship!
On this 175th anniversary of the death of Aaron Burr, I have an item up on Huffington Post questioning whether Americans really want nonpartisanship. That certainly was not Burr’s experience! …
Read MoreNuremburg War Crimes Trials
John Q. Barrett is a law professor at St. John’s in New York and a scholar of Justice Robert Jackson (pictured below). He produces periodic e-mails about Justice Jackson that…
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