The Speeches Of Mr Bacon And Mr Nicholson In The National House Of Representatives In Defence Of The

by John Bacon Joseph Hopper Nicholson

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First edition

Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1802. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. Loose signatures. Two Jeffersonians--Bacon of Massachusetts and Nicholson of Maryland--argue in favor of the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which stacked the federal judiciary with Federalists appointed by the departing President John Adams. Joseph Hopper Nicholson was a native of Chestertown,

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