Addresses Literary Political Legal Miscellaneous

Author : Alexander K. McClure
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330434482
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Addresses, Literary, Political, Legal Miscellaneous written by Alexander K. McClure and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses, Literary, Political, Legal Miscellaneous, Vol. 2 The second volume of Mr. McClure's addresses presents his attainments as a public speaker in every possible phase, and no apology need be offered for presenting them. The two legal arguments with which the volume opens are the only addresses of that character which have been preserved. The great interest felt in the legal issues involved in those cases induced a stenographic report of the arguments on both sides, and as legal arguments are seldom prepared in full by lawyers it is not surprising that only two of his many addresses in the court have been preserved. Both of these arguments were delivered before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and are on subjects which involved not only great legal questions, but which also enlisted an unusual degree of popular interest. The one relating to the rights, duties and penalties of citizenship was delivered before the Supreme Court soon after the war, and as the legal point at issue was a new one before the courts of either State or nation, and as it affected the right of franchise in very large circles in this and other States, popular interest in the dispute was very general and earnest. It is entirely safe to say that this argument is the most exhaustive presentation of the mutual relations between our free government and its subjects that has ever been presented in any of our American courts. The other legal argument given affected alike the interests of the bench, the bar and the press, although the immediate question involved was the right of a Judge to debar two prominent attorneys for criticism published in a newspaper of which they were the editors after the final judgment of the court, and on a case in which the debarred attorneys were not professionally interested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.