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Joel Richard Paul

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How the Supreme Court Failed to Stop the Brutal Relocation of Indigenous American Nations

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

by Joel Richard Paul via Literary Hub on October 25, 2022

Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism

Joel Richard Paul

Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

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A lithograph of Daniel Webster from William H. Brown’s 1845 series “Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens”

We Fought Over American National Identity During the Antebellum Period. The Fight Should Be Ongoing.

A new work of history finds the best antidote to today’s authoritarian politics in Daniel Webster’s 19th-century civic nationalism.

by David Marques via The New Republic on November 15, 2022

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; painting by Henry Inman, 1832.

Hail to the Chief

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”

by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on November 22, 2018

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