Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson

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>> 303 Index Accidents: carriage, 239; law, 255 ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union Activism, judicial, 9, 266, 291n83 Act to Establish Religious Freedom (VA 1786), 24, 42n65 Adams, John, 13 Adams, Samuel, 13 Ad damnum clause, 242 “The Adequate Award” (Belli), 252 Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (US 1923), 131 Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (U.S.), 268–69. See also Deregulation Adultery. See Fornication and adultery Advertising: on children’s television, 276, 279; in newspapers, 221n6 African Americans, 160n36; as head of household, 178n46; in interracial relationships , 171–72, 177n41, 178n42; jury selection and, 166–69, 169, 177n34; lynching of, 170, 177n38; in middle class, 145–46; migration of, 172–73, 178n44, 178n45; racial justice achieved through courts, 161n51; registered voters, 169, 177n37; slavery and, 13, 36n1, 58, 105, 149, 162, 166, 172–73, 218. See also Civil Rights Movement Agur, prayer of, 210 Aikens, David Wyatt, 60–61 Airbag technology, 272 Alcohol. See Liquor Alexandria, VA, 44n76 Allen, Daniel B., 194–96, 226n38 Allen, Ethan, 28, 220n5 Amendments, constitutional. See Fourteenth Amendment American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 154 Americanization of the Common Law (Nelson ), 164, 187 American Journal of Legal History, 2 American Revolution, 5, 14, 16–17, 19, 20, 40n42, 73n23; confiscation during, 19, 40n42; Hessians in, 73n23; influence of, 16–17 American Society for Legal History, 2, 76 Ames, John W., 64–65 Anglican Church, 19. See also Church of England; Episcopal Church Ante-mortem probate, 212 Antislavery ideology, 7, 116 APA. See Administrative Procedure Act (US) Arson, 17, 38n28 Articles of War of 1806 (US): article 54, 55; article 58, 55–56; explanation of, 54 Ashurst-Sumners Act (US), 132–33 Associated Press, 223n18 Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), 249, 250, 251–52, 254 Astor, Brooke, 219 ATLA. See Association of Trial Lawyers of America Automobile industry, 271–73, 276–77, 286n33 Autopsy, 196–97 Avery, Ephraim, 14 Awards: “The Adequate Award” (Belli), 252; for pain and suffering damages, 246. See also Compensation; Damages Bacon, Nathaniel, 112n33 Bailyn, Bernard, 10n7 Baker, Ella, 142 Baker, Isaac V., Jr., 118 304 > 305 Clairvoyants, 182, 198–99, 201 Clark Distilling v. Western Maryland Ry. Co (US 1917), 132 Clarke, John Proctor, 126 Class, 174n2, 177n34; business, 191, 218; divisions , 85, 160n44, 213; legislation, 116, 124; middle, 145–46, 207, 246; millionaire, 210; professional, 153; racism and, 158n23, 167; upper, 212, 231n70, 246; working, 122, 126, 148, 155 Clean Air Act (US), 274, 276 Clergy Act of 1748 (VA), 43n73 Clerics: religious persecution of Anglican, 14–15, 16–17, 19; tax support revoked for Anglican, 24 Clinton, Henry L., 194, 195, 197–98, 201–2, 204, 220n5 Cliometrics, 162 Colson v. Lewis (US 1817), 46n102 Commentaries on the Laws of England (Blackstone), 26 Commerce Clause (US Constitution), 117, 119, 121–23, 125, 132–33, 136n25 Committees of Sequestration or Safety (NY), 16–17 Common law, New York and, 235, 239–40. See also Pain and suffering Community studies: of Civil Rights Movement , 157n10; extant treatments, 40n39 Comparative Legal History, 10n8 Compensation: for gruesome injuries, 246– 47; for mental suffering and intangible recoveries, 244–47, 252, 254; workmen’s, 139n85, 248–50, 255–56 Computer technology, 162 Comstock, George F., 220n5, 227n45 Confidence Man, The (Melville), 184 Confiscation: American Revolution, 19, 40n42; Civil War, 88n23; of Loyalist property, 39n38; VA and VT, 20; War for Independence, 40n42. See also Disestablishment Congregational Church of Ipswich, 23 Congregations, glebe and, 22 Congressional debates: constitutional historians and analysis of, 6, 77; Fourteenth Amendment and, 77–80, 82–83 Congress of Racial Equality, 154 Connecticut (CT): disestablishment in, 34; formal actions against Loyalists, 20; glebes in, 41n50; religious establishments in, 41n52; Society for Propagation of the Gospel v. New Haven (US 1823), 45n99 Connell, S. D., 40n41 Consecration, of churches, 42n56 Constitutional historians, 6, 77 Constitutional history, of Reconstruction, 76, 87n20 Contract labor system: Fassett Law (NY) and, 119; vote against, 118, 136n11 Convict labor: Commerce Clause, 117, 119, 121–23, 125, 132–33, 136n25; due process clause and, 123–25, 132–33; Fassett Law and, 119; as form of slavery, 117, 126; free labor in NY, 116–39; piece-price system, 118–19; vote against contract labor system, 118, 136n11; Yates Law (NY) and, 119 Cooley, Thomas, 240 Cooper, John G., 127. See also Hawes-Cooper Act (US) Cooper, William, 93 Cooper Industries v. Leatherman Tool Group (US 2001), 242–43 Corpses, interference with, 245 Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Brown-Nagin), 140 Court...