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Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone.
Joseph Smigelski: Out of Infamy : An Important Film at a Crucial Time 2010
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British jus soli nationality existed since before the time of William Blackstone up through 1983.
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William Blackstone, the author of the single greatest treatise on the British legal system, explained property requirements this way: the “true reason of requiring any qualification with regard to property in voters is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation as to be esteemed to have no will of their own.”
HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010
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Here is the abstract:Although William Blackstone served longer as a judge on the English Court of Common Pleas than he had as the inaugural Vinerian Professor of English law at Oxford, his post-professorial legal life has been almost entirely ignored by scholars.
Three by Kadens Dan Ernst 2009
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De Grey was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas when William Blackstone was on that court, and I was researching a paper on Blackstone as a judge.
Archival Discoveries Emily Kadens 2009
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Prest, William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the...
How to Post Comments Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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William Blackstone, the revered 18th century defender of liberty whose Commentaries on the Laws of England was a bestseller in colonial America, wrote that "the last auxiliary right" of free men is "having arms for their defense."
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