Keyword Search

Recent Postings

Penny A. Petersen: "Isaac Atwater."

Thomas L. Olson: "Blockbusters: Minnesota Movie Men Slug it out with Studio Moguls, 1938-1948."

"The history of law is the history of ideas" --- A preface to articles on intellectual legal history and theory posted on the MLHP.

Justice David J. Brewer: "Protection to Private Property from Public Attack." (1891).

Justice David J. Brewer: "The Movement of Coercion." (1893).

Justice Calvin L. Brown: "State and Federal Police Power." (1908).

James J. Hill: "The Railroad: Legislative Regulation and Its Limits." (1910).

Edward T. Young: "The Present Problems Involved in Minnesota's Statehood." (1908).

President Theodore Roosevelt: "The Courts." (1908).

Louis D. Brandeis: "The Opportunity in the Law." (1905).

Viewing Literature Category (1) found:

DeWitt Clinton Cooley: "The High Old Court of Impeachment." (1878)

After Judge Sherman Page's impeachment trial concluded with his acquittal in June, 1878, DeWitt Clinton Cooley, a prominent St. Paul lawyer, published a three-act play about the proceedings. It was a wicked farce. Cooley lampooned the state senate, which had styled itself "The High Court of Impeach...