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In this context, St. George Tucker's personal and judicial expressions of women's rights evince an unusually progressive perspective that places him in the vanguard of social and legal reform in the early republic. This directly rebuts Christopher Doyle's assertions in his examination of Tucker's commitment to gender equality and social reform.' It also raises interesting questions regarding.
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St. George Tucker was one of the more influential jurists, legal scholars, and legal educators of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America. This essay provides an introduction to this William and Mary Law Review symposium on Tucker and his influence on American law. In addition to serving as both a state and federal judge, and a law professor at William and Mary, Tucker made his.
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St. George Tucker to probe openly almost all of the Revolution's implica-tions for patriarchal families, slaves, and democratic citizenship. In addition to a remarkable debate about the course of the Revolution, the slave Tom's action reveals a community seeking consensus on all these questions. Throughout the 1790s, Tucker played a significant role on and off the bench in shaping this.
William Blackstone is the 18th century jurist who wrote a four-volume work on English Law. These volumes known as Blackstone's Commentaries had a substantial influence in American law. In fact, in American and British colleges used his commentaries for years after his death in 1780. Blackstone's main contribution to law was in his theory of common law.
The site also contains St. George Tucker’s essay on the British concept of seditious libel and its application to American jurisprudence. For a class activity, students might stage the Cooper trial, which by far has the most complete coverage on the web, as a means to understand how contemporaries perceived and framed the issues.