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The links below are organized under the following headings:<\/p>\n

Acts of Parliament, Acts of Congress, President\/Founding Father most associated with a law or “Story,” Miscellaneous “Stories,” and Antiquarian Legal Texts.<\/p>\n

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT (leading up to the Coercive \/ Intolerable Acts)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1328 – STATUTE OF NORTHAMPTON (and the Second Amendment)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1651 – MERCANTILISM AND THE NAVIGATION ACTS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1361 – JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ACT OF 1361 (and justice of the peace manuals discussing the Statute of Northampton)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1764 – CURRENCY ACT <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1764 – SUGAR ACT<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1765 – STAMP ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1765 – QUARTERING ACT <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1766 – DECLARATORY ACT\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1773 – TEA ACT\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

COERCIVE \/ INTOLERABLE ACTS (leading to the Revolutionary War)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1774 – BOSTON PORT ACT <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1774 – QUARTERING ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1774 – ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1774 – MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNMENT ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1774 – QUEBEC ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

EARLY COLONIAL RESISTANCE – 1st Continental Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n

1774 – SUFFOLK RESOLVES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1774 – DECLARATION OF COLONIAL RIGHTS and the CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION (coming soon)<\/p>\n

1775 – PROHIBITORY ACT <\/a>OF<\/span>\u00a01775 (Britain’s declaration of economic war against the colonies which helped precipitate the Declaration of Independence) and the OLIVE BRANCH PETITION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – 2nd Continental Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n

1776 – JEFFERSON AND THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1779 – AMERICA’S FIRST HISTORIAN: GOUVERNEUR MORRIS’S OBSERVATIONS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1781 – THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1781 – THE IMPOST OF 1781<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1783 – THE IMPOST OF 1783 (and Hamilton’s 2\/15\/1786 speech to the NY Assembly)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1786 – 1787: SHAYS’ REBELLION AND THE FOUNDERS (PART 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

17867 – 1787: SHAYS’ REBELLION: THE LAWS THAT PROVOKED THE REVOLT AND EVENTUALLY SUCCEEDED IN SUPPRESSING IT (PART 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2022 NCHE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: Reconciling Patriot Versus Loyalist Communities Following the Revolutionary War: Attorney Alexander Hamilton\u2019s Representation of Loyalists and Hamilton\u2019s Phocion Essays<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

IMAGES AND PRIMARY SOURCES CITED IN 2022 NCHE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2023 NCHE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: The so-called Critical Period<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CONSTITUTION and CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

1787 – 1789 THE CONSTITUTION: AMERICA’S SECOND REVOLUTION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

BILL OF RIGHTS – PART 1: BACKGROUND IN ANGLO-AMERICAN HISTORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

BILL OF RIGHTS – PART 2: CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION’S CURIOUS OMISSION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL (Why do “Twelve Angry Jurors” need to be unanimous?)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

WHO KNEW THAT THE CONSTITUTION HAS A “COVER LETTER” (Teaser to 4 part series)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE<\/a> CONSTITUTION’S FORGOTTEN COVER LETTER – Part 1 (Overview)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE CONSTITUTION’S FORGOTTEN COVER LETTER – Part 2 (the Hamilton Authorship Thesis)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE CONSTITUTION’S FORGOTTEN COVER LETTER – Part 3 (the Legacy of the letter over time)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE CONSTITUTION’S FORGOTTEN COVER LETTER – Part 4 (pending research questions)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> – WHO WROTE THE CONSTITUTION’S COVER LETTER? (recorded by the LLI of Nova Southeastern University)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

ALEXANDER HAMILTON AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1787 – THE COMPROMISE OVER WAR POWERS AND THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE (coming soon)<\/p>\n

1787 – THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE: Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1787 – THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE: Part 2<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: AN INTRODUCTION (PART 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE AND THE FOUNDERS (PART 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

IMPEACHMENT, INSURRECTIONS, AND THE PARDON POWER (Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

IMPEACHMENT OF A FORMER PRESIDENT (Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION AND THE ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON\/GOUVERNEUR MORRIS AND RELATED DISCOVERIES IN THE NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES<\/strong><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> <\/span>– “NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION” (recorded by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/span><\/strong> – ELIZA HAMILTON’S TRIP TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (recorded by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NEWLY UNCOVERED HAMILTON FINANCIAL RECORDS – Part 1 (Hamilton’s reimbursement for attendance at the Constitutional Convention)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NEWLY UNCOVERED HAMILTON FINANCIAL RECORDS – Part 2 (Yates and Lansing’s reimbursement for attendance at the Constitutional Convention)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

SIGNIFICANCE OF NEWLY DISCOVERED FINANCIAL RECORDS INVOLVING THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION – Part 3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION <\/strong>– MYSTERY SOLVED: PAYING FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION & THE YATES RETURNS DISCOVERY (recorded by the NY State Archives)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA: New discoveries (Part I)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

RETHINKING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 17, 1787: Newly discovered evidence of Robert Yates’ aborted second trip to the Convention (Yates Returns Part I)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

RETHINKING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 17, 1787: Newly discovered evidence of Robert Yates’ aborted second trip to the Convention – What we know and don’t know<\/a><\/span> (Yates Returns Part II)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

RETHINKING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 17, 1787: Newly discovered evidence of Robert Yates’ aborted second trip to the Convention – Why did Yates Return? (Yates Returns Part III)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

RETHINKING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 17 1787: Newly discovered evidence of Robert Yates’ aborted second trip to the Convention – Research update (Yates Returns Part IV)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

RETHINKING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 17 1787: Newly discovered evidence of Robert Yates’ aborted second trip to the Convention – Update regarding court records (Yates Returns Part V)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MORE DISCOVERIES IN THE NY ARCHIVES: ROBERT C. LIVINGSTON AND THE ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION (Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION END THESIS (Part 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

DELEGATE COMPENSATION AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION – PART I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NEW HAMPSHIRE DELEGATE COMPENSATION AND NEWLY DISCOVERED RECORDS OF PAYMENTS TO GILMAN AND LANGDON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VIRGINIA DELEGATE COMPENSATION AND VIRGINIA’S CENTRAL ROLE AT THE CONVENTION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIRGINIA DELEGATE COMPENSATION IN 1787 – JOURNALS AND LEDGERS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATE COMPENSATION PART I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“THERE IS NO MONEY IN THE TREASURY”: MARYLAND GOVERNOR SMALLWOOD’S REPLY TO DELEGATE JOHN FRANCIS MERCER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS’ CARRIAGE ACCIDENT AND THE STATE OF MEDICAL CARE IN 1780 (Newly uncovered receipts)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

WHY DID ALEXANDER HAMILTON LEAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ? (The Penman-Publius Axis)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Mystery Solved at the Library of Congress involving fragmentary Morrisania file in the Hamilton Papers \u2013 Part I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mystery Solved at the Library of Congress: Unlikely Arbitrators Philip Schuyler & Governor Clinton: More Surprises in the Morrisania Case – Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

ELIZABETH HAMILTON<\/strong><\/p>\n

ELIZA HAMILTON’S TRIP TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (the Eliza Philadelphia Surprise – Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ELIZA HAMILTON’S TRIP TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (the Eliza Philadelphia Surprise – Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ELIZA HAMILTON’S TRIP TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (the Eliza Philadelphia Surprise – Part 3)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ELIZA HAMILTON’S TRIP TO THE NEW YORK RATIFICATION CONVENTION (“Finding Eliza in Poughkeepsie” aka the “Eliza Poughkeepsie Surprise”)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

THE CONSTITUTION HOUSE – MISS DALLEY’S BOARDING HOUSE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHERE WAS THE CONSTITUTION “DRAFTED” ? MYSTERY SOLVED: Newly uncovered financial records prove that Gouverneur Morris was lodging at Miss Dally’s boarding house when he wrote the Preamble (Miss Dally – Part I)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

MISS DALLY’S BOARDING HOUSE: WHERE WAS THE CONSTITUTION WAS “DRAFTED” (Miss Dally\u00a0 – Part II)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

PRIMARY SOURCES FROM MISS DALLY’S BOARDING HOUSE: RECEIPTS AND PROPERTY TAX ROLLS (Miss Dally – Part III)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

COMMITTEE ON STYLE VENUE HYPOTHESIS (Miss Dally – Part IV)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

MISS DALLY’S BOARDING HOUSE: QUESTIONS, ANSWERS AND MORE QUESTIONS (Miss Dally\u00a0 – Part V)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE HAMILTON-GERRY NEXUS HYPOTHESIS (Miss Dally – Part VI)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE WASHINGTON SATISFACTION GAMBIT HYPOTHESIS (Miss Dally – Part VII)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

QUARTERS AT LIBERTY HALL (Miss Dally – Part VIII)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CASE CLOSED: MORRIS BOARDED WITH MISS DALLY (Miss Dally – Part IX)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

BREAKING NEWS:\u00a0 Long-sought receipt from the Constitutional Convention has finally been located (Conclusive proof that the Penman of the Constitution boarded with Miss Dally during the summer of 1787) <\/a>(Miss Dally – Part X)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MARY DALLEY 8 in 1780<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

REGARDING FREE HENRY HYPOTHESIS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MISS DALLY HISTORIC MARKER APPLICATION WITH THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CONSTITUTION HOUSE EXHIBIT AT HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

TAVERNS AND AMERICA’S FOUNDING HOSTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMERICA’S FOUNDING HOSTS – Gifford Dalley (Part 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AMERICA’S FOUNDING HOSTS – Mary Dalley (Part 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AMERICA’S FOUNDING HOSTS – Simmons’ Tavern (Part 3)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AMERICA’S FOUNDING HOSTS – Elizabeth Fraunces (Part 4)(pending)<\/p>\n

BRUTUS, THE FEDERAL FARMER AND RATIFICATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mystery Solved: Antifederalist Elbridge Gerry was the \u201cFederal Farmer<\/em>\u201d (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Mystery Solved: Antifederalist Elbridge Gerry was the \u201cFederal Farmer<\/em>\u201d (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Federal Farmer<\/em> \/ Elbridge Gerry Authorship Thesis \u00a0– “the FEAT” (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 3)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Evidence of the Federal Farmer<\/em> \/ Elbridge Gerry Authorship Thesis (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 4)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Federal Farmer’s<\/em> Fingerprints (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 5)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Federal Farmer’s<\/em> Arguments (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 6)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Federal Farmer<\/em> in Congress (Federal Farmer<\/em> Part 7)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Confirmed: Antifederalist Melancton Smith was Brutus<\/em> (Brutus<\/em> Part 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Brutus<\/em> – Melancton Smith Authorship Thesis (Brutus<\/em> Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Melancton Smith’s Fingerprints (Brutus<\/em> Part 3)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Melancton Smith’s Syllogistic Reasoning (Brutus<\/em> Part 4)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Melancton Smith’s Watershed July 23 convention speech (Brutus<\/em> Part 5)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST CONGRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1789 – 1791:\u00a0MADISON AND THE FIRST CONGRESS\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ACTS OF CONGRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Index of the Major Acts of Congress 1789 – 1898 (1st to 50th Congress)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1789 – OATH ACT (the first Act of the first Congress)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1789 – ACT ESTABLISHING THE WAR DEPARTMENT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1789 – BILL OF RIGHTS: Part I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1789 – BILL OF RIGHTS: Part II<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1789 – SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL (Why do “Twelve Angry Jurors” need to be unanimous?)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1790 – NATURALIZATION ACT OF 1790 (1st naturalization law)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1790 – COPYRIGHT ACT of 1790 (1st Federal copyright law)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1790 – CRIMES ACT of 1790 (1st Federal criminal laws)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1790 – RESIDENCE ACT (Hamilton’s grand compromise)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1790 – FUNDING ACT (Hamilton’s financial plan and assumption of state debt)(coming soon)<\/p>\n

1790 – ACT OF THE GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION OF SEAMEN (1st Federal labor law)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1790 – ACT PROVIDING FOR MORE EFFECTIVE COLLECTION OF DUTIES (Hamilton creates the Coast Guard)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1790 – THE TREATY OF NEW YORK (the 1st treaty by the federal government)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1791 – WHISKEY TAX of 1791 (1st Internal Revenue tax)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1792 – MILITIA ACT of 1792 and Emergency Presidential powers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1792 – COINAGE ACT of 1792 (creating the U.S. Mint)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1792 – THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION ACT OF 1792 AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE – Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1793 – FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1793<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1794 – CARRIAGE ACT OF 1794 (1st case appealed to the Supreme Court challenging an act of Congress)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1795 – JAY’S TREATY – Part 1 (background, controversy & treaty terms)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 – JAY’S TREATY – Part 2 (presidential leadership, the bitter ratification battle & the origin of executive privilege)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 – JAY’S TREATY – Part 3 (Hamilton’s Camillus<\/em> essays defending the treaty)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1795 – FIRST SENATE REJECTION OF A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE (CHIEF JUSTICE RUTLEDGE’S SHORT RECESS APPOINTMENT)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1796 – THE INDIAN NON-INTERCOURSE ACT OF 1796<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1796 – WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1796 – ACT RELATIVE TO QUARANTINE (1st federal quarantine law and the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1798 – ALIEN & SEDITION ACTS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1798 – ACT ESTABLISHING THE NAVY DEPARTMENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1798 – MARINE CORP ACT of 1798<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1798 – \u00a0ACT FOR RELIEF OF SICK AND DISABLED SEAMEN (first Federal health insurance program)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1799 – LOGAN ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1800 – THE ELECTION OF 1800 (compared to the Election of 2020) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1801 – JUDICIARY ACT OF 1801 (Adams\u2019 \u201cMidnight judges” and Judicial Review)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1803 – ACT EXTENDING THE EXTERNAL COMMERCE OF THE US (Congress secretly authorizes funds for the Lewis and Clark Expedition)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1803 – THE TWELFTH AMENDMENT (and the Election of 1800)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1806 – CUMBERLAND ROAD (1st national highway)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1807 – INSURRECTION ACT OF 1807<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1807 – ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVES<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1813 – ACT TO ENCOURAGE VACCINATION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1828 – TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1830 – INDIAN REMOVAL ACT\u00a0 (Trail of Tears 1832-1838)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1833 – FORCE ACT & SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFICATION CRISIS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1834 – HOUSE GAG RULE , ANTI-SLAVERY PETITIONS, AND “OLD MAN ELOQUENT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1845 – THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DATE ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1861 – REVENUE ACT (1st Federal Income Tax)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1862 – NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD ACT (Transcontinental Railroad)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1862 – MORRILL LAND GRANT COLLEGE ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1862 – THE SECOND CONFISCATION ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1862 – THE MILITIA ACT OF 1862 (and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1863 – CONSCRIPTION ACT of 1863 (1st wartime draft)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1863 – SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1861 – 1863 LINCOLN’S 37th CONGRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1866 – CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 (1st Federal civil rights law)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1866 – 14th AMENDMENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1867 – PEONAGE ACT (an attempt to outlaw debt servitude)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1867\u00a0 – TENURE IN OFFICE ACT (Johnson impeachment)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1871 – CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1871 (also known as the “KKK Act”)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1872 – YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK PROTECTION ACT (first national park)(coming soon)<\/p>\n

1882 – CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1883 – PENDLETON CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ACT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1887 – ELECTORAL COUNT ACT AND THE “SAFE HARBOR” DEADLINE (and the Election of 1876)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1887 – INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (first independent agency)(coming soon)<\/p>\n

1917 – U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR I (Joint Declaration of War and the Acts of the 65th Congress): <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Laws adopted during World War I: The Espionage Act, Trading with the Enemy Act, Selective Service Act, Liberty Loan Act, and the Overman Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1919 – 19th AMENDMENT \u00a0(WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1958 – NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1963 – THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION ACT OF 1963<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1964 – THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1965 – THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

MISCELLANEOUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alexander Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHO WAS ALEXANDER HAMILTON? (a brief overview)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON MUSICAL POWERPOINT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S EXTRAORDINARY LEGAL LEGACY (PowerPoint presentation)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S REPRESENTATION OF LOYALISTS, PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACTS AND JUDICIAL REVIEW (the case of Rutgers v. Waddington<\/em>)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

HAMILTON AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN NEW YORK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON CREATES THE COAST GUARD\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON CREATES THE U.S. MINT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON\u2019S FIRST REPORT ON THE PUBLIC CREDIT <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S REPORT ON MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND CLAY’S AMERICAN SYSTEM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S REPORT ON MARINE HOSPITALS AND THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF THE 1790’s<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S WHISKEY TAX, THE FIRST INTERNAL REVENUE TAX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S GRAND COMPROMISE, THE RESIDENCE ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS THE CARRIAGE ACT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT IN HYLTON v. U.S.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE v. LEVI WEEKS<\/em> (HAMILTON AND BURR FOR THE DEFENSE) (Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE v. LEVI WEEKS<\/em> (THE TRIAL) (Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE v. LEVI WEEKS<\/em> (THE AFTERMATH) (Part 3)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S DEFENSE OF JAY’S TREATY (the Camillus essays)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S CO-DRAFTING OF WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HAMILTON’S MOST UNDEMOCRATIC MOMENT? (Hamilton’s May 7, 1800 letter to Jay and the Election of 1800)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: DID ALEXANDER HAMILTON DRAFT THE CONSTITUTION’S COVER LETTER ?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PLAN TO SABOTAGE HAMILTON AT THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2022 NCHE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: Reconciling Patriot Versus Loyalist Communities Following the Revolutionary War: Attorney Alexander Hamilton\u2019s Representation of Loyalists and Hamilton\u2019s Phocion Essays<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

IMAGES AND PRIMARY SOURCES CITED IN 2022 NCHE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2023 NCHE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: The so-called Critical Period: Freedom from Anarchy and Chaos; Freedom to Federalism and Order<\/i><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ELIZA HAMILTON’S GODDAUGHTER – LITTLE ORPHAN FANNY (Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE MORRIS – ANTILL – HAMILTON CONNECTION (“Little Orphan Fanny” – Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson<\/strong><\/p>\n

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – WHEN DID THE COLONIES BECOME A NATION?\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CUMBERLAND ROAD – JEFFERSON AND THE FIRST FEDERAL HIGHWAY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ACT PREVENTING THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

THE ELECTION OF 1800 (and the 12th Amendment)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE INSURRECTION ACT OF 1807 (and the Burr Conspiracy)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

John Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE PROHIBITORY ACT OF 1775<\/a> & THE OLIVE BRANCH PETITION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MASSACHUSETTS CONSTITUTION OF 1780 – JOHN ADAMS’ BLUEPRINT FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS – INFAMOUS ASSAULT ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JUDICIARY ACT OF 1801 – ADAMS’ MIDNIGHT JUDGES AND JUDICIAL REVIEW<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ACT FOR RELIEF OF SICK AND DISABLED SEAMEN – FIRST FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

James Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n

FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION AND DRAFTER OF THE VIRGINIA PLAN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST CONGRESS – MADISON BREATHES LIFE INTO THE CONSTITUTION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

THE BILL OF RIGHTS: PART I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE BILL OF RIGHTS – PART 2<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JAY\u2019S TREATY \u2013 PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP, THE BITTER RATIFICATION BATTLE AND THE ORIGIN OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

GEORGE WASHINGTON\u2019S PERSONAL COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION AND ACTS OF THE FIRST CONGRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE TREATY OF NEW YORK (the 1st treaty by the federal government)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MILITIA ACT of 1792 and EMERGENCY PRESIDENTIAL POWERS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON LEADS TROOPS TO QUELL THE WHISKEY REBELLION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE “FIRST” THANKSGIVING AND WASHINGTON’S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

TALE OF TWO GEORGES: A TOUR OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION IN LONDON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE ORIGINS OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IN THE WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATION<\/span><\/p>\n

THE CONSTITUTION’S FORGOTTEN COVER LETTER (the letter signed by Washington that introduced the Constitution to the world)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

LINCOLN<\/strong><\/p>\n

REVENUE ACT of 1861 (1st Federal Income Tax)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD ACT (Transcontinental Railroad)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MORRILL LAND GRANT COLLEGE ACT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CONSCRIPTION ACT of 1863 (1st wartime draft)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE MILITIA ACT OF 1862 (and the “Mass 54th” – the first African American regiment)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1861 – 1863 LINCOLN’S 37th CONGRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Other stories<\/strong><\/p>\n

PATRIOT PUBLISHER ISAIAH THOMAS\u00a0 AND THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM<\/em> (Mathew Carey’s literary magazine that chronicled the adoption of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the First Congress)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND THEIR MANUALS – LAW BOOKS TRAVEL BY SADDLE BAG<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (“OLD MAN ELOQUENT”) – THE HOUSE GAG RULE AND ANTI-SLAVERY PETITIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, JOHN LOCKE AND THE SLAVE CODE OF 1740<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

PERSONAL LIBERTY LAWS – examples of Northern resistance to the FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN NEW YORK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

FIRST AMERICAN COLONIAL PENSIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONS \u2013 Federal assumption of state pensions<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

FEDERAL MILITARY PENSIONS\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ELIZA HAMILTON’S PENSION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MARTIN LUTHER KING’S LEGAL LEGACY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS OF 1964, 1965 and 1968<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JOHN LEWIS AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JOHN LEWIS AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JUNETEENTH – AMERICA’S SECOND INDEPENDENCE DAY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE “FIRST” THANKSGIVING AND WASHINGTON’S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

LINCOLN\u2019S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VETERANS DAY AND THE LAWS CREATING THE US MILITARY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE STORY OF THE FIRST CODIFICATION OF STATE LAW – The 1829 Revised Laws of the State of New York<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0NOTRE-DAME & THE FOUNDING GENERATION: Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

TALE OF TWO GEORGES: A TOUR OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION IN LONDON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE v. LEVI WEEKS<\/em> (HAMILTON AND BURR FOR THE DEFENSE) (Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE v. LEVI WEEKS<\/em> (THE TRIAL) (Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE v. LEVI WEEKS<\/em> (THE AFTERMATH) (Part 3)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN FLORIDA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

FIRST SENATE REJECTION OF A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE (CHIEF JUSTICE RUTLEDGE’S SHORT RECESS APPOINTMENT)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JAMES WILSON’S LAW LECTURE TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON AND CONGRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

WHY 2020 IS NOT 1800, 1824, OR 1876<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S MOST UNDEMOCRATIC MOMEN<\/a><\/span>T? (Hamilton’s May 7, 1800 letter to Jay and the Election of 1800)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ELECTION LAW<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Electoral College and the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 – Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The 12th Amendment and the Election of 1800<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 and the Election of 1840<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Electoral Count Act of 1887, the Safe Harbor Deadline, and the Election of 1876<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Presidential Transition Act of 1963<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Why Hamilton’s May 7, 1801 letter to Jay is not a precedent to set aside swing state votes in 2020<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Why 2020 is not 1800, 1824, or 1876<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Why the so-called “Pence Card” is a canard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission<\/em> – district court decision by Judge Ludwig<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission<\/em> – 7th Circuit affirmance<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HOLIDAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRESIDENTS DAY AND OUR EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MARTIN LUTHER KING’S LEGAL LEGACY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS OF 1964, 1965 and 1968<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

JUNETEENTH – AMERICA’S SECOND INDEPENDENCE DAY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE “FIRST” THANKSGIVING AND WASHINGTON’S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

LINCOLN\u2019S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VETERANS DAY AND THE LAWS CREATING THE US MILITARY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ANTIQUARIAN LEGAL TEXTS FOR COLLECTORS<\/strong><\/p>\n

First American law books after independence<\/em><\/p>\n

1781 – THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (published by Francis Bailey, by order of Congress)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1787-1792:\u00a0THE AMERICAN MUSEUM<\/em> (the literary magazine that chronicled the adoption of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the First Congress)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1788 – THE PERPETUAL LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (Isaiah Thomas) – Including the Massachusetts Constitutions (the world’s oldest functioning constitution)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 – A SYSTEM OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT (Zephaniah Swift) – the first American treatise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 – THE NEW VIRGINIA JUSTICE (William Waller Hening) – early handbook and forms for justices of the peace under new American law\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1795 – THE MASSACHUSETTS JUSTICE: Being a Collection of the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts relative to the Power and Duty of Justices of the Peace – early handbook for justice of the peace under new American law (Samuel Freeman, printed by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer Andrews)(coming soon)<\/p>\n

1809 – A COLLECTION OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA (William Waller Hening)\u00a0the first official compilation of the laws of Virginia, derived in part from Thomas Jefferson’s personal library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1830’s – THE STATUTES AT LARGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, edited under the Authority of the Legislature (Thomas Cooper)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1810 – A DIGEST OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES, AND A TREATISE ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE, AND PROMISSORY NOTES (Zephaniah Swift) – the first American treatise on evidence\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1829 – THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (John Duer, \u200eBenjamin Franklin Butler, John C. Spencer) – the first official statutory codification of state law<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1834 – THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS IN THE FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES WITH APPENDIX – Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and all the laws of a Public Nature with a Copious Index, in two volumes (published by Gales and Seaton, 1834)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

First compilations of the Laws of the United States<\/em><\/p>\n

1789 – GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PERSONAL COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION AND ACTS OF THE FIRST CONGRESS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1796 – LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES in three volumes through the Fourth Congress, Published with Authority (compiled by Zephaniah Swift and published by Richard Folwell, Philadelphia)\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1797 – LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, Published with Authority (printed by William Ross, Philadelphia) – coming soon<\/p>\n

1789 – ACTS PASSED AT A CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA published with authority (Francis Childs and John Swaine, Philadelphia)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

YouTube Video Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> <\/span>– “NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION” (recorded by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> – ELIZA HAMILTON’S TRIP TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (recorded by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION <\/strong>– MYSTERY SOLVED: PAYING FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION & THE YATES RETURNS DISCOVERY (recorded by the NY State Archives)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> – WHO WROTE THE CONSTITUTION’S COVER LETTER? (recorded by the LLI of Nova Southeastern University)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> – MISS DALLEY’S BOARDING HOUSE where Gouverneur Morris, the “Penman of the Constitution,” boarded in 1787 (presentation to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in November 2024)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

VIDEO PRESENTATION<\/strong> – MISS DALLEY’S BOARDING HOUSE (decision by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to grant the Gouverneur Morris\/Constitution House marker)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

YouTube videos about Constitution House unveiling ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n

Constitution House unveiling ceremony – promotional video 1 about Gouverneur Morris<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Constitution House unveiling ceremony – promotional video 2 about Alexander Hamilton<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Constitution House unveiling ceremony – promotional video 3 about Mary Dalley\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Constitution House unveiling ceremony – promotional video 4 about Market Street<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Constitution House unveiling ceremony – promotional video 5 about Samuel Adams and other boarders<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Constitution House unveiling ceremony – promotional video 6 about the Regarding Henry Hypothesis (pending)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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