1George Joy to James Madison, 4 March 1835 (Madison Papers)
...given my friend Gregson, who condensed the Criminal Laws for him, an Official situation; I...
2From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, [14] August 1824 (Madison Papers)
...not Judicial character. On questions of criminal law & jurisdiction, the strict rule...
3From John Adams to Edward Livingston, 1 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
...to me only the act relative to the criminal laws of the State; your election to execute it...
4From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 December 1821 (Adams Papers)
...Hales history of the common law. In criminal law which I advise you to study to...
5Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Early Career (the so-called “Autobiography”), [6 January–29 July 1821], with editorial note … (Jefferson Papers)
as the law of Descents, & the Criminal law fell of course within my portion, I wished the...
6Giovanni Carmignani to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...public law at the University of Pisa, taught criminal law for much of his career, and in...
7To James Madison from James Jameson and Others, 6 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
...from his execution. The object of all criminal law is not the punishment of the offender...
8Enclosure: Eugene Aram’s Defense at his Trial for Murder, [3 August 1759] (Jefferson Papers)
criminal law [index entry]
9To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
offence was writing down the old sanguinary criminal law of our state, by which I made many old...
10Caesar A. Rodney to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
...while a British court could not apply American criminal law to the slave traders, it could and...
11Contemporary Translation of Extracts from Destutt de Tracy’s Reflections on Montesquieu’s First Twelve Books, [after 16 … (Jefferson Papers)
..., applied to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, and the forms of judgment. In...
12Thomas Jefferson to Skelton Jones, 28 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
whether the change in the stile & form of the criminal law, as introduced by ...criminal law: &...
13From Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 16 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
...has brought forward a bill to amend our criminal law; but however necessary, I have no idea...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 15 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
But to recur to writers on the subject of criminal law, let us attend to what is stated in a...
15To James Madison from John George Jackson, 21 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
...Great man, to bend every principle of criminal Law to the purposes of his acquittal,...
16To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 17 May 1807 (Adams Papers)
...penned by Prof. v. d. Keesel—are masterpieces of criminal Law procedures
17To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
system of Criminal law. Dr Franklin shares with him in that honor,—Although...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Kerr, 27 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...you a copy of an exposition of the Criminal law of this Territory, compiled by order of...
19To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 1 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...—accompanied with my warm respects—a Treatise written on the Criminal Laws of this Territory....
20To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 8 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...proper judicial system, a code of criminal laws, municipal improvements, and provision for...
21Pardon of James Medcalfe, 16 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress, Courts, and Criminals: The Development of Federal Criminal Law, 1801-1829
22To Thomas Jefferson from Zalegman Phillips, 1 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...bar. He established a thriving practice in criminal law. In 1805, he married Arabella Solomon...
23Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, 14 May 1801 (Adams Papers)
...Pennsylvania, in which he discussed “the criminal law of the United States and the duties...
24An Address to the Electors of the State of New-York, [21 March 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
“An Act making alterations in the Criminal law of this State, and for erecting State Prisons” (
25To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 9 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705–1865
26From John Adams to Pennsylvania Legislature, 21 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
...owing to a want of national character or want of criminal laws, a remedy ought to be sought
27Address to the New York State Legislature, 2 January 1798 (Jay Papers)
...alterations in the criminal law, and substituting the punishment of imprisonment,...
...Entitled “an Act making Alterations in the Criminal Law of this State and for erecting...
29To George Washington from David Stuart, 18 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
..., and clearer separation between civil and criminal law. He was, however, responsible...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Amanda Coe, 2 September 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
...entitled an Act making alterations in the criminal Law of this State and for erecting State...
31Charles Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1796 (Adams Papers)
...single “Act Making Alterations in the Criminal Law of This State and for Erecting State...
32To John Jay from Oliver Wolcott, 30 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
conceive that our Criminal Law, as relative to our local Relations, must be extremely...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Christoph Daniel Ebeling, 30 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...principal laws in force, especially those on inheritances, policy, criminal Laws, and punishments
34To Thomas Jefferson from William W. Hening, 24 July 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
...Hale, Hawkins, and other writers on Criminal law, I have not adopted their precise...
35To James Madison from Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 14 February 1794 (Madison Papers)
...National Assembly who proposed reforms of the criminal law code. Fleeing into exile in 1792,...
36To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 8 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...we advert to the strictness, with which criminal Law is interpreted, and the latitude allowed...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 28 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...too metaphisical. In reading the code of English criminal law, I could not give my assent to...
38To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
...to the compleat administration of their criminal Laws that there should not be asylums...
39To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 27–31 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
...was much better, because at least the criminal Law was executed, not to mention the...
40Enclosure II: James Wilson to William Bingham, 24 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
...and its Truth is of peculiar Importance, with Regard to criminal Law in particular.
41Enclosure XI: Affidavit of Hugh Purdie, [1 October 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
...Young that if I had offended against the criminal law of England I might be accountable for...
42To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 29 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
& the D of Tuscanys code of criminal Law to induce some state in America to execute one or...
43From George Washington to Arthur St. Clair, 6 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
...United States, that for want of criminal laws and magistrates among them to administer...
44To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 6 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
...of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for the Reform of Criminal Law in his Dominions
45From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 8 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...them into. In his time the Criminal laws were reformed, provincial assemblies and...
46From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...our state assemblies. They have reformed the criminal law, acknoleged the king cannot lay a...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 2 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...-long interest in the reform of the criminal law. This, together with his standing among...
48New York Ratifying Convention. Remarks (Francis Childs’s Version), [27 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...the execution of the civil and criminal laws? Can the state governments become...
49[May 1788] (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
50From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 23 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...kingdom. By these ordinances 1. the criminal law is reformed, by abolishing Examination on the...