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Papal justice subjects and courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750 / by Polverini Fosi, Irene

Table of Contents: “…A complex geography -- Roman tribunals in the early modern period -- The "new" inquisition and the pope's city -- The theater of justice -- Restless nobles -- Collaboration and conflicts : governors, bishops, inquisitors -- Sins and crimes -- Inside the family -- Disciplining the clergy -- Buon governo : between Utopia and reality -- Little fatherlands : local identity and central power -- Rivers of ink : petitions, memorials, letters -- Justice represented, justice recounted.…”
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Democracy, liberty, and property the state Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s /

Table of Contents: “…The test oath -- The Third Article -- The "poll parish" -- Tax exemption -- The suffrage -- The basis of representation -- Joseph Story on representation -- Daniel Webster on representation -- "Address to the people" -- Statement of the votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the several counties -- The Council of Revision and the veto power -- The term of the governor -- The appointive power -- The Senate and the suffrage -- The Negro and the suffrage -- Blasphemy and libel -- Reform of the judiciary -- Cooke on democratic representation -- Upshur on majorities and minorities -- Doddridge in rebuttal -- Leigh on power and property -- Randolph on the federal issue -- Marshall on compromise -- Summers on the Gordon plan -- Gordon on the Gordon plan -- The non-freeholders' memorial -- The freehold suffrage defended -- The reformers' rebuttal -- The executive -- The county courts -- The amendment article -- The question of ratification.…”
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