Next weekend features an original play depicting Abraham Lincoln's law career, rescheduled Art Attack, Post Modern Jukebox and the Rochester Record Show.
Abraham Lincoln stands not only as America s greatest president but also as its greatest lawyer. At the time of his election to the presidency in 1860 he was the most prominent practicing lawyer in the state of Illinois. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America s indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom
A genius for friendship Abraham Lincoln stands not only as America’s greatest president but also as its greatest lawyer. At the time of his election to the presidency in 1860 he was the most prominent practicing lawyer in the state of Illinois. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history.
Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America’s indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom at the exact moment when the country was on the threshold of abandoning what he called its “ancient faith” that all men are created equal. How can it be that lawyers know so little of the giant of their profession?
the facts in this case. i believe that as reasonable men, and you all are reasonable men, or judge david davis would not have seated you as jurors. he had an almost mesmerizing way in the presentation of his case with jurors and used storytelling to make his point. narrator: william herndon recalled one of lincoln s best speeches to a jury was in the case of thomas versus wright. rebecca thomas was an elderly woman who was crippled and bent with age. she lived off her husband, john s, pension from his service during the revolutionary war. a grave miscarriage of justice against this woman. narrator: but erastus wright, a pension agent, claimed that he was entitled to half of her monthly pension. when mrs. thomas engaged lincoln to bring a suit against wright for the return of her money, he was outraged by her treatment. lincoln told judge davis, i m going to skin wright. this woman s husband was at valley forge. he walked barefoot in the snow. he talked about val