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The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr - Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation (Paperback, New)
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The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr - Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
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Discovery Miles 6 000
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The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in
American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal
proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's
best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who
declared Burr guilty without the benefit of a trial and who
masterminded the prosecution), Chief Justice John Marshall (who sat
as a trial judge in the federal circuit court in Richmond) and
former Vice President Aaron Burr (who was accused of planning to
separate the western states from the Union) against each other. At
issue, in addition to the life of Aaron Burr, were the rights of
criminal defendants, the constitutional definition of treason and
the meaning of separation of powers in the Constitution. Capturing
the sheer drama of the long trial, Kent Newmyer's book sheds new
light on the chaotic process by which lawyers, judges and
politicians fashioned law for the new nation.
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