1From 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...
2To John Adams from John Jebb, 20 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits
3To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 30 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
...the other for an Examination of the Criminal laws— Both were Carried Almost Unanimously,...
4To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 5 January 1787 (Adams Papers)
...Protestants, freedom of trade, and the need to reform criminal law. He read
5To 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
6To 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...
7Charles Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1796 (Adams Papers)
...single “Act Making Alterations in the Criminal Law of This State and for Erecting State...
8To 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
9To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
system of Criminal law. Dr Franklin shares with him in that honor,—Although...
10To 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...
11To 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...
12Enclosure 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.
13From 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....
14From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, [14] August 1824 (Madison Papers)
...not Judicial character. On questions of criminal law & jurisdiction, the strict rule...
15An 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” (
16From Benjamin Franklin to Filangieri, 11 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
..., that you were proceeding to consider the criminal Laws. None have more need of Reformation....
17To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri: Résumé, 27 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...of my Works, which includes the second part of the Criminal Law.
18To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan and Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 29 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...which appear to relate to the subject of criminal laws, but which perhaps are not new to Dr...
19To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 9 August 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...Retaliation. It is, however a fact in criminal Law, that tho’ there are no bounds to...
20To 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...
21To Benjamin Franklin from “Comte” Julius de Montfort de Prat: Two Letters, 19 August 1780: résumés (Franklin Papers)
...destroy me through civil law they decided to resort to criminal law.
22To 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...
23To 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...
24From 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...
25From 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...
26From 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...
27To John Jay from Oliver Wolcott, 30 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
conceive that our Criminal Law, as relative to our local Relations, must be extremely...
28Giovanni 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...
29To 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...
30To 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....
31To 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...
32To 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...
33To 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...
34[To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, 19 March 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
...’s proposals to the Assembly relative to criminal laws, liberty of religion &c.,...
35To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 9 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705–1865
36To Thomas Jefferson from Christoph Daniel Ebeling, 30 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...principal laws in force, especially those on inheritances, policy, criminal Laws, and punishments
37Caesar 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...
38To 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...
39To 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...
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: &...
41From 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...
42To 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,...
43To 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...
44To 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,...
45To 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...
46To 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...
47From 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...
48George Joy to James Madison, 4 March 1835 (Madison Papers)
...given my friend Gregson, who condensed the Criminal Laws for him, an Official situation; I...
49Pardon of James Medcalfe, 16 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress, Courts, and Criminals: The Development of Federal Criminal Law, 1801-1829
50From 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...