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020 _a9781139135481 (ebook)
020 _z9781107022188 (hardback)
020 _z9781107606616 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aKF223.B8
_bN48 2012
082 0 0 _a345.73/0231
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100 1 _aNewmyer, R. Kent,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Treason Trial of Aaron Burr :
_bLaw, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation /
_cR. Kent Newmyer.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (242 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Studies on the American Constitution
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aBurr Conspiracy, 1805-1807
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107022188
830 0 _aCambridge Studies on the American Constitution.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135481
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c38063
_d38063