Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... judge of one of the higher courts before admission . On Smith's recom- mendation Judge Charles Warren examined Butler one evening in September , 1840. In his autobiography Butler characteristically told how , at his examination , he ...
... judge of one of the higher courts before admission . On Smith's recom- mendation Judge Charles Warren examined Butler one evening in September , 1840. In his autobiography Butler characteristically told how , at his examination , he ...
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... Judge , and re- turned to the convention " determined to do something to curb the independent power of the Judges ... judge in 1853. The facts , as contemporaneously reported , are that Butler and Abbott appeared before a judge named ...
... Judge , and re- turned to the convention " determined to do something to curb the independent power of the Judges ... judge in 1853. The facts , as contemporaneously reported , are that Butler and Abbott appeared before a judge named ...
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... judge's views , but a judge could usually evoke the sort of verdict he desired , as Judge Hoar did in the previously mentioned libel suit brought by Butler . There can be little doubt that Butler had this case in mind when he drafted ...
... judge's views , but a judge could usually evoke the sort of verdict he desired , as Judge Hoar did in the previously mentioned libel suit brought by Butler . There can be little doubt that Butler had this case in mind when he drafted ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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