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...their clients, who have shown little enthusiasm for democratic ways, the 22 lawyers energetically demanded every final democratic safeguard. All week long the legalists bobbed up & down, objecting, concurring, complaining. They protested because the court reporter worked for a firm with an allegedly Jewish executive. They applied for a writ of mandamus to have the whole thing dropped. They said there were too many policemen in court for a "relaxed" atmosphere-and FBI agents had been "persecuting" the accused. When Prosecutor 0. John Rogge inadvertently let slip that this was the third indictment for some of the defendants, the whole...
...shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed in "Federalist party justice." But the indefatigable Uncle...
Thomas' sentence: $100 fine and three days in jail. The State Supreme Court let Thomas out on a writ of habeas corpus to keep a date with General Marshall...
...Army had taken him to India, and it was there, Llewellyn claims, that he wrote the first draft of How Green Was My Valley. The final draft was writ ten on London park benches while he was jobless. In between he had been a boxer (his nose is slightly out of joint), a film extra, a reporter for a penny film paper, an assistant movie director and scenarist...
...Writ by hand. Al Botts