#146: Legal/Political Legacies and Aspirations of the American 'Lawyers' Revolution'

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Revolutions are tumultuous episodes of history when the past and the present battle to fundamentally shape the future. How did the 'lawyers' revolution' and the American legal and political systems define and redefine the meanings and context of our laws? Dr. Williamjames Hoffer, Professor of History at Seton Hall University, tells the story of the Caning of Charles Sumner, the Plessy v. Ferguson case, and the 'lawyers' revolution' that refocus contemporaries on the political and legal aspirations and complexities of our nation.
Check out the following books by Williamjames!
The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America
The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism and the Origins of the Civil War
To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891

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