1Charles Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1796 (Adams Papers)
...single “Act Making Alterations in the Criminal Law of This State and for Erecting State...
History of Criminal Law
3From 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...
The Criminal Law extends itself to every Individual of the Community. It...
5From 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...
6From 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
History of the Criminal Law of England,
812th. (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
9[May 1788] (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
10Thomas 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...
11Enclosure: Eugene Aram’s Defense at his Trial for Murder, [3 August 1759] (Jefferson Papers)
criminal law [index entry]
12To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 20 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
...a purpose of establishing a Court of criminal Law in this Town, for reasons which...
13Giovanni 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...
14To 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...
15New 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...
16To 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....
17To 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...
18To 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...
1964. A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments in Cases Heretofore Capital, 18 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...it would not too much enlarge the field of criminal law? The same may be questioned of 9.G.1...
2020. A Bill Directing the Course of Descents, 18 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...: “As the law of Descents, and the criminal law fell of course within my portion, I...
21To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 11 April 1785 (Adams Papers)
...did much business— A new Code of Criminal Laws passed—with many other public & private...
22Contemporary 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...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Christoph Daniel Ebeling, 30 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...principal laws in force, especially those on inheritances, policy, criminal Laws, and punishments
24To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri: Résumé, 27 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...of my Works, which includes the second part of the Criminal Law.
25To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri, 24 August 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...completed the third book, the one dealing with criminal law. It will take up two volumes, one...
26From Benjamin Franklin to Filangieri, 11 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
..., that you were proceeding to consider the criminal Laws. None have more need of Reformation....
27From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 5 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits
28From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...now live in affords a Proof, its whole Civil and Criminal Law Administration being done for
29From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
...the letter appears under the title “On the Criminal Laws, and the Practice of Privateering...
30Remarks on the Quebec Bill: Part One, [15 June 1775] (Hamilton Papers)
...whereas the certainty and lenity of the criminal law of England, and the benefits and...
31An 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” (
32To 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...
33To 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...
34To 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
35To 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,...
36To 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...
...Entitled “an Act making Alterations in the Criminal Law of this State and for erecting...
38Address to the New York State Legislature, 2 January 1798 (Jay Papers)
...alterations in the criminal law, and substituting the punishment of imprisonment,...
39To John Adams from John Jebb, 20 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits
40Thomas 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: &...
41Thomas 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...
422. Jefferson’s Notes of English Statutes, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Challenge belongs either to law of Pleadings or Appendix to Criminal law....to criminal law...
43From 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...
44Pardon of James Medcalfe, 16 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress, Courts, and Criminals: The Development of Federal Criminal Law, 1801-1829
45To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1786 (Madison Papers)
...the revisal shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation, is much...
46From 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...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 30 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...Offenders be within the cognisance of the criminal Law at all (which the Attorney seems to...
48From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation is much criticised...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 8 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...them into. In his time the Criminal laws were reformed, provincial assemblies and...
50From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 22 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
.... Pennsylvania is proposing a reformation of their criminal law; N.York of their whole code....