Duty and Justice at "Every Man's Door": The Grand Jury Charges of Chief Justice John Jay, 1790–1794 |
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| Authors: | JOHN P. KAMINSKI C. JENNIFER LAWTON |
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| Affiliation: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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| Abstract: | "It is the Fortune of few to chuse their Situation—it is the Duty & Interest of all to accommodate themselves to the one which Providence chuses for them." 1 So said John Jay, Chief Justice of the United States. Duty was paramount in the lives of Jay and many of his contemporaries of the founding generation. |
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