LEADER 03660nam 2200577 450 001 9910466560803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-2608-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501726088 035 $a(CKB)4100000007005385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5541086 035 $a(OCoLC)1030445991 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67669 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048915 035 $a(DE-B1597)503440 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501726088 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5541086 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007005385 100 $a20181023d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe clamor of lawyers $ethe American Revolution and crisis in the legal profession /$fPeter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (199 pages) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5017-2609-9 311 $a1-5017-2607-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: A Lawyers' Revolution -- $tChapter 1. "The Worst Instrument of Arbitrary Power" -- $tChapter 2. "The Alienation of the Affection of the Colonies" -- $tChapter 3. "My Dear Countrymen Rouse Yourselves" -- $tChapter 4. "A Right Which Nature Has Given to All Men" -- $tChapter 5. "That These Colonies Are . . . Free and Independent States" -- $tConclusion: The Legacy of the Lawyers' American Revolution -- $tNotes -- $tA Note on Sources -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that key protagonists in the story of American independence were members of the bar with extensive practices. The American Revolution was, in fact, a lawyers' revolution.Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer broaden our understanding of the role that lawyers played in framing and resolving the British imperial crisis. The revolutionary lawyers, including John Adams's idol James Otis, Jr., Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, and Virginians Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with Adams and others, deployed the skills of their profession to further the public welfare in challenging times. They were the framers of the American Revolution and the governments that followed. Loyalist lawyers and lawyers for the crown also participated in this public discourse, but because they lost out in the end, their arguments are often slighted or ignored in popular accounts. This division within the colonial legal profession is central to understanding the American Republic that resulted from the Revolution. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aLawyers$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWar$xCauses 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLawyers$xHistory 615 0$aWar$xCauses. 676 $a973.31 700 $aHoffer$b Peter Charles$0239430 702 $aHoffer$b Williamjames Hull 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466560803321 996 $aThe clamor of lawyers$92487554 997 $aUNINA