Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution Myra B. Young Armstead Thomas and Whittington have gathered

Thomas and Whittington have gathered an impressive array of contributions

Using this seminal work as a point of departure

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In A Law of Her Own

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution Myra B. Young Armstead Thomas and Whittington have gatheredDaniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly from his hardscrabble New Hampshire origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the ways in which Webster was an innovative jurist. While Chief Justice John Marshall gets credit for much of our early constitutional jurisprudence, in