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...19th century a change occurred that Vanderbilt ascribes to the Jacksonian revolution, with its premise that all men are not only created equal but remain equal throughout life. While Andrew Jackson, once a judge himself, conceded that judges needed special qualifications, his followers took a more liberal view: jurors, lawyers and judges, all being men, all were considered equal. As a result of this thesis, the trial judge in Maryland and Indiana to this day must instruct the jurors in criminal cases that they are judges not only of the facts but of the law. An outgrowth of the equalitarian...
...full effect of the Jacksonian idea was felt in 1846, when New York State switched to an elective judiciary-and paved the way for the reign of Boss Tweed. Other states followed suit, and as Judge Vanderbilt says, the "judges campaigned for judicial office in the hustings with the other candidates of the political parties from sheriff to hog reeve." Today all the judges of 36 states are elected political officers...
Born in Spring Creek, Pa., a town his great-grandfather had helped found, he was reared as an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat. He began practicing law in Jamestown, N.Y., after taking a two-year Albany Law School course in one year. His first clients were union men arrested in a violent transit strike. He got them acquitted. Before long he was vice president and general counsel of the Jamestown transit company. By the time he went to Washington, at 42, Jackson's abilities were widely recognized. His cases had included a $1,700,000 judgment, a hearing by lantern before...
...first important suffrage extention was to eliminate property holding and taxpaying qualifications for manhood suffrage. Although the American Revolution was followed by a lowering of property qualifications it wasn't until the rise of Jacksonian democracy that such qualifications were largely swept away and with them much of the power of the early American aristocracy...
...student body. As the old party of Washington died, its policies were handed down to the Whigs and to the Whigs Harvard turned next. The friendship with the Whigs lasted through the Presidency of a Harvard son, John Quincy Adams, '87, through what must have been dreary Jacksonian years, and up until...