Lawyers and Politics in Early American History
FAIN: FT-11144-72
Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1698)
Tadahisa Kuroda (Project Director: July 1972 to present)
To research the dramatic rise of lawyers to postitions of preeminence in American government in the period from 1763-1830, and to assess their role in persuading the new republic to depend on rule of law.