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to Col. Langdon re: power of Courts, ambiguity of law

Discussing a "cursed Lusanna cause" of New Hampshire for which the Supreme Court has been requested to issue a Writ of Error. He complains: "[B]oth the [Supreme] Court & Bar could not put a just Construction of the Law, they acknowledged it to be...

GLC06548

Collection of letters from Salmon Portland Chase to Jehu Glancy Jones regarding the politics during the Reconstruction Era [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC05677

to Jehu Glancy Jones

Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, discusses party politics with Jones, a judge and former United States Representative from Pennsylvania. States "I thank you for your kind solicitude concerning my health, but fancy that its...

GLC05677.05

to C. H. Betts

Responds to criticism from Betts over an article Roosevelt wrote in The Outlook denouncing the New York Court of Appeals for their decision to rule the workmen's compensation act unconstitutional. States that their conduct was, " ... a most flagrant...

GLC06422

The Supreme Moment - Chief Justice Fuller administering the Oath of Office to President William McKinley

The photograph shows the podium in the middle distance and from a slight angle. McKinley occupies the exact center of the shot.

GLC06449.14