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William Paterson was born December 24, 1745, in County Antrim, Ireland, to Richard Paterson, an Ulster Protestant. [2] Paterson immigrated with his parents to New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1747. [3] At 14, he began college at Princeton. After graduating, he read law with the prominent lawyer Richard Stockton and was admitted to the bar in 1768.
Principally authored by William Paterson of New Jersey, the New Jersey Plan was an important alternative to the Virginia Plan proposed by James Madison and Edmund Randolph of Virginia. [2] Its proposals would have created a political entity similar to the modern-day European Union .
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
PATERSON — State fiscal monitors have impeded the city's efforts to settle a lawsuit filed by two men who spent 24 years in prison before their murder convictions were overturned by a judge ...
The Great Falls of the Passaic River, showing the turbine housing of the S.U.M. dating from 1911. The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) [1] or Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures was a private state-sponsored corporation founded in 1791 to promote industrial development along the Passaic River in New Jersey in the United States. [2]
June 15, William Paterson (NJ) proposed the Convention minority's New Jersey Plan. It was weighted toward the interests of the smaller, less populous states. The intent was to preserve the states from a plan to "destroy or annihilate" them. The New Jersey Plan was purely federal, authority flowed from the states.
The Practical Statutes of the Session 1849 [1] was published in 1853 and edited by Charles John Belcher Hertslet. [2] The Practical Statutes of the Session 1850 [3] was published in 1850 and edited by Edward William Cox and William Paterson. [4] Other editors included James Sutherland Cotton, [5] William de Bracy Herbert [6] and A L Malcolm.
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