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The poem was published in the Sangamo Journal, [2] a newspaper in which Lincoln had previously published other works. The poem uses a similar meter, sync, dictation and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is "especially Lincolnian in spirit". [3]
The use of poetry can also be seen as an exercise in self-aggrandisement, as poetry's constraints often force judges to employ deficient and incomplete legal reasoning. [15] Judge Richard Posner wrote that while poetry may effectively summarise a dispute and the legal rationale for a decision, two different poems—unlike two separate pieces of ...
[14] [1] Miller filed suit against Payne County for unpaid attorney's fees, and the case was the first to be appealed to the Oklahoma State Supreme Court in 1907. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] A proponent of alcohol prohibition, in 1892 Miller was president of the Stillwater branch of the Christian Temperance Union, [ 17 ] and upon statehood helped to write ...
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The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More is the standard scholarly edition of the works of Thomas More, published by Yale University Press. [1] The first of the fifteen volumes to be published (volume 2) appeared in 1963, and the last (volume 1) in 1997.
William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. [1] Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in ...
R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. (AB 1949, ΒΘΠ), former President and chairman, United Missouri Bancshares; Richard Kinder (BA 1966, JD 1968, ΣΝ, QEBH), chairman and CEO of Kinder Morgan; former President of Enron; net worth of $10.2 billion; #39 on 2013 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans [13]
Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; Yanna Krupnikov, political scientist; John P. Lewis, economist, economic adviser appointed by John F. Kennedy; Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law; Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine