The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr write by R. Kent Newmyer. This book was released on 2012-09-24. The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr write by Peter Charles Hoffer. This book was released on 2008. The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding Father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton, resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. And when he turned his attention to entrepreneurial activities on the frontier he was suspected of empire building - and worse." "In the first book dedicated to this important case, Peter Charles Hoffer unveils a cast of characters ensnared by politics and law at the highest levels of government, including President Thomas Jefferson - one of Burr's bitterest enemies - and Chief Justice John Marshall, no fan of either Burr or Jefferson. Hoffer recounts how Jefferson's prosecutors argued that the mere act of discussing an "overt Act of War" - the constitution's definition of treason - was tantamount to committing the act. Marshall, however, ruled that without the overt act, no treasonable action had occurred and neither discussion nor conspiracy could be prosecuted. Subsequent attempts to convict Burr on violations of the Neutrality Act failed as well."--BOOK JACKET.
Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr
Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr write by Aaron Burr. This book was released on 1808. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr write by R. Kent Newmyer. This book was released on 2014-05-14. The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Burr trial pitted Marshall, Jefferson and Burr in a dramatic three-way contest that left a permanent mark on the new nation.
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aaron Burr write by Buckner F. Melton. This book was released on 2001-11-09. Aaron Burr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To shed new light on the conspiracy itself and on what led Burr to orchestrate it, Professor Melton traces Burr's career - from his early days as a New York attorney to his cunning political maneuverings, from his decades-long feud with chief rival Alexander Hamilton to his complex relationships with the other Founding Fathers, especially with Thomas Jefferson and his coconspirator, General James Wilkinson, Commander of the United States forces in the West.
