Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume I: The Authority Of Rights

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Research for this study was supported by a fellowship grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and by a Huntington Library-National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Leave from teaching duties at New York University School of Law was provided by the Filomen D'Agostino Greenberg and Max E. Greenberg Faculty Research Fund at the School of Law, and by Norman Redlich, dean of the School of Law. Thomas Mackey, Cornelia Dayton, and Maura Doherty verified citations and text. The manuscript benefited from the attention of a distinguished group of legal historians: Norman Cantor, William E. Nelson, and the student members of the New York University School of Law Colloquium in Legal History. A final debt of gratitude is owed to Robert Middlekauff , Martin Ridge, and the marvelous staff of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. There is no finer institution at which to pursue the elusive study of eighteenth-century Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is not the books and manuscripts alone that make the Huntington special. There are the long walks with history among the cactus and the coyotes. It was on one walk, somewhere between the Japanese and Australian gardens, that Robert Smith of East Montana State in Billings first brought to my attention the important study written by Franklin Pierce on the eighteenth-century right to public facilities. It was down by the lily pond that Pat Smith suggested that Mrs. Franklin Pierce may have been the first American to identify it as a fundamental right. New York University School of Law ...