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blankets. At least the first generation of the freed women's descendants would be "bound to service by the overseers of the poor" until age 21. Black people in Virginia would not be allowed to hold public office, nor could they own land; they would only be allowed to lease land for terms of up to 21 years. They would not be allowed to own or bear arms, except when specifically permitted by the General Assembly (and even then, Assembly authorization could only last for a three-year term). Black people would be forbidden from marrying a person outside of their race, and they could not serve as an attorney or as a juror; they would only be allowed to serve as a witness against other black people in court. In addition, black people would not be allowed to create a will; serve as a trustee, administrator, or executor; or have property held in trust for them.

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years' worth. Students would be expected to know ancient and modern history, politics, and constitutions (with special emphasis on the Virginia state and United States federal constitutions); and they would also have to "be well-versed in" ethics, municipal laws, and British laws still in effect in Virginia, as well as rules of practice in the Commonwealth. A professor would conduct a closed-book oral exam of the student on a topic of the professor's choosing; if a student passed the professor's exam, the student would apply to practice law before either the County Courts or Court of Appeal of Virginia. If admitted to practice, the student would write a thesis. Once the thesis was approved by the professors and printed, the College would award the student a Bachelor of Laws. Tucker's plan provided for Bachelor of Laws recipients to receive a

708:, serving from 1788 to 1803. While serving on the General Court, Tucker continued his efforts at reforming the Commonwealth's legal system. Among other items, he proposed bills to decentralize the Virginia Court of Chancery, reorganize the District Courts of Virginia, and improve the jury selection process in the state; ultimately, though, the Virginia General Assembly never passed any of Tucker's proposals into law. From 1789 to 1792, Tucker served as one of the revisors tasked with creating a long-desired code of the laws then in effect in Virginia. Tucker also wrote several pamphlets during this time, including a discussion as to what extent the United States had adopted the 338: 410: 1166:

stimulate a serious discussion about the problem of slavery in Virginia." Historian Clyde N. Wilson says that "erhaps the most important things about Tucker's essay for later times are the following: it shows the potential in the South for constructively addressing the most difficult issue in American society before the time when it became necessary to defend against outside control; and, it demonstrates that Tucker's state rights understanding of the Constitution is not merely a rationalization in defense of slavery."

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since not all students would be in Williamsburg then. During sessions, Tucker's students usually read during the times they did not attend lectures. Students were also expected to study outside of sessions by reading the great treatises on English law. Tucker usually had students numbering in the mid-teens, even in the later part of the 1790s, when the College's total attendance was only about 50. Under Tucker's professorship, the College awarded its first

495:, as did the General Court of Virginia in 1775 (and did not re-open for three years). Tucker needed to find alternatives to practicing law in Virginia. Tucker returned to Bermuda and obtained an attorney's and solicitor's license there, but was not able to drum up much business. Tucker joined his father and his brother Thomas in a business smuggling goods between the West Indies and the American colonies in Virginia and South Carolina. 1217:" was organized into five volumes. Each volume would begin with Blackstone's original text, with notes from Tucker added, followed by an appendix containing Tucker's lectures and writings on particular subjects. Blackstone's text was mostly arranged the same way as in the original version, but Tucker organized the appendixes to show what he felt the most important developments in American law were. 624:

resources for learning about the English common law. Along those lines, Tucker's course would discuss how civil law principles had replaced common law ones in United States jurisprudence since the Revolution. Tucker's course also discussed other important topics of the day such as the abolition of slavery. Parts of Tucker's lectures showed that states' rights were an important principle to him.

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Declaration of Rights applied only to "free citizens, or aliens only", and could not be applied like a "sidewind" to overturn the "rights of property" in slaves. The justices affirmed freedom based on the Wrights' Indian ancestry and the fact that Indian slavery had ended in Virginia, plus the appellant's failure to prove any African ancestry on the maternal side.

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s significance as the first genuine effort by a Southerner to effect emancipation in his state. Finkelman notes that "Tucker had the strength of character to explore the problem at least. He was a true academic intellectual who used his skills as a thinker and writer in an attempt, however futile, to

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In response to criticism that his plan was not bold enough, Tucker confessed to sacrificing some principles in order to increase the chances of his plan's passage. Tucker also acknowledged that he was not immune to prejudices himself; and that while he opposed banishing black people from Virginia, he

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Tucker and the other appellate judges (all slaveholders) disagreed with Wythe's argument that blacks could be presumed free at birth (as were whites). They noted that Africans ("negroes, Moors and mulattoes") had been brought into the state only as slaves and were non-Christian. Tucker wrote that the

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In July 1803, the Board of Visitors resolved that they should specifically notify Tucker about their earlier decision regarding lecture locations; in addition, all College professors were now required to submit attendance rolls to the Board at each meeting and to arrange to visit every student's room

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Blackstone's Commentaries : with notes of reference to the constitution and laws, of the federal government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia : with an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view

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of all women born to slaves after the plan took effect; all the women's descendants would be born free. After being freed under the plan, women born to slaves would be obligated to serve their former master's family until the age of 28, after which time they would receive $ 20, some clothes, and two

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at the College at least twice per week. This combination of new requirements was the last straw for Tucker, who believed that the new duties demonstrated "perfect contempt" from the Board for the College's professors. Tucker resigned, effective March 1804, to avoid troubles for his current students.

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Tucker initially arranged his classes into winter and summer sessions to avoid conflict with his judicial service. Originally, Tucker scheduled three-hour lectures three times a week during both sessions, but by 1798 he had added two lectures to the winter session and eliminated the summer session,

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Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master;

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Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa. . .Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty. . .whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies. . .whilst we adjured

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if he felt a single, unified court opinion would do. In 1808, Tucker crafted another piece of proposed legislation that would have greatly reduced the number of mandatory appeals a party was entitled to, both in an effort to reduce the Court of Appeals's caseload and to curtail what Tucker saw as

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differed from United States law. Tucker also added lectures on principles of United States government, and told his students that the laws passed by United States legislatures, both state and federal, would be more important in his course than the authorities whose treatises were the traditional

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Tucker taught his courses from his home in Williamsburg so that he could have his full library, an extensive and well-regarded collection of Virginia and United States law and the law of nations, close at hand. In November 1801, the College's Board of Visitors adopted a resolution requiring all

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Tucker strongly believed that future attorneys needed a proper legal education before beginning to practice, and would sometimes even cover students' fees to keep them from dropping out. Tucker's reputation quickly grew, and the College soon took in law students from other states, and even from

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degree by taking an exam after four more years of residing and studying at the College, after eight years away from the College, or after five years of practicing before a superior court. Judges and attorneys who practiced before the superior courts of Virginia for at least seven years would be

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Tucker wanted to increase the requirements for a Bachelor of Laws, and so he created a "Plan for Conferring Degrees on the Students of Law in the University of William and Mary". Under Tucker's plan, students would be required to attend two full years' worth of courses, or the majority of three

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published in the United States actually discussed new legal developments there; they just reprinted Blackstone's discussions of English law. Tucker also felt that Blackstone's sympathy with the power of the Crown over that of Parliament would be a poor influence for a student of American legal

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society, and expected several objections from the Virginia Assembly. Abolishing slavery in Virginia would effectively eliminate a large portion of the wealth of Virginia's slaveholders, many of whom also served on the Assembly; as a side effect, a considerable share of the taxable property in

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frequently, referring to it in over forty cases, many of them significant. Modern lawyers, legal scholars, and judges still refer to this work as an important tool for determining how Americans understood both English and American law in the early days after the United States's independence.

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Based on the Court of Appeals record, Wythe appears to have based his ruling on two elements: that the three Wrights appeared white and their master had not proved that they were slaves or of African descent, and that residents of Virginia had a presumptive right to freedom based on the 1776

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with his notes and with his lectures from William & Mary added as appendixes. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to find a printer, Tucker reached an agreement with the Philadelphia firm of Birch and Small, which paid Tucker $ 4000 for the book's copyright. "Tucker's

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and frustration with some of the General Assembly's efforts at judicial reform, which included a recommendation that Court of Appeals justices be required to live in Richmond, led Tucker to resign from his position shortly after the new session began in March 1811.

1325:(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1999) (1803). Reprints an appendix from "Tucker's Blackstone" discussing the United States federal constitution. Footnotes edited for modern readers and lists of resources used by Tucker added. Foreword and commentary by Clyde N. Wilson. 602:'s Board of Visitors in 1782. He attended many meetings, and protected the College's curriculum from conservative clergy on the board. Tucker became the College's rector in 1789, When George Wythe resigned in 1790, the Board of Visitors awarded Tucker an honorary 1137:

uch is the force of prejudice that in the house of delegates, characters were found who voted against the letter and its enclosure lying on the table." Tucker was severely disappointed by the reaction, and while he still lectured on the topic and distributed the

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in mind. Many Virginians also worried that freed slaves would not want to work in the commonwealth's fields, leaving plantations with too few workers. Furthermore, Tucker noted that white Virginians' "habitual arrogance and assumption of superiority. . .unfit

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on February 4, 1819, to a new seat authorized by 3 Stat. 478. His service terminated on June 30, 1825, due to his resignation. Tucker's health had begun to fail in 1822, as did his wife Leila's a couple of years later, which led to Tucker's resignation.

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sold well from the beginning, and it quickly became the major treatise on American law in the early 19th century. Law reporter Daniel Call described it as "necessary to every student and practitioner of law in Virginia". Lawyers arguing before the

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and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the

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Tucker proposed the gradual emancipation of slaves, a process that other states, such as New York, began in the late eighteenth century, when some northern states abolished slavery altogether. Tucker's plan began with the

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was also likely one of the first extensively researched treatises on the history of slavery in the British North American colonies, as well as a comprehensive description of the law of slavery in Virginia at the time.

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pointless delay tactics by parties that only served to clog the court system. The Virginia Assembly rejected this proposal, along with Tucker's idea of splitting the Court of Appeals into legal and chancery divisions.

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According to historian Clyde N. Wilson, Tucker's principles of states' rights and limited government would be prevailing ideas for him and other Jeffersonians for several generations. Legal historian

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describes Tucker's plan as "simultaneously visionary, philanthropic, racist, vicious, utterly impractical, internally inconsistent, and hopelessly complex" - modern scholars recognize the

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Virginia would also disappear. Members of Virginia's ruling class, including Tucker, were afraid of the changes emancipation would have on their society, possibly with events such as the

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degree with two more years of residence at the College, or by taking an exam after four years if they were away. Students who received the Bachelor of Laws could also earn a

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During Tucker's time as Professor of Law and Police, students who wished to get a Bachelor of Laws from William & Mary also needed to fulfill the requirements for a

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Tucker's proposal noted that census figures at the time showed that a large number of slaves in Virginia had been emancipated, stating that the commonwealth had more "

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and read them to his classes, and added lectures on Virginian and United States federal law and comparing the American political system with its British counterpart.

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and law professor David Cobin note, though, that Tucker was a "moderate states' rights advocate" and supporter of union, close to the philosophy of people such as

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the best treatise to use for learning the common law, he thought it had some important weaknesses as a teaching tool for American law. None of the editions of

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sought with his plan to make conditions in the commonwealth such that they would want to leave on their own (Tucker suggested the then-Spanish territories of

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had decided in favor of freedom for the slave Jackey Wright and her two children. She had sued for freedom based on her grandmother's and great-grandmother's

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After Frances's death, Tucker left Matoax for a house facing the Palace Green and Market Square in Williamsburg; this house remains today on the grounds of

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doctrine. A pamphlet Tucker wrote in 1785 argued for a common American commercial policy and earned Tucker a position as one of Virginia's delegates to the

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Court in 1783. The Virginia Court of Admiralty admitted Tucker to its bar in 1785, and the General Court of Virginia in Richmond did likewise in 1786.

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The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, Esq., a Cousin of Peter's, and a Candidate for the Post of Poet Laureate, to the C. U. S. In Two Parts

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the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die. . .we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a

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Tate, Adam L. (2003). "Republicanism and Society: John Randolph of Roanoke, Joseph Glover Baldwin, and the Quest for Social Order".

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Philadelphia: William Young Birch and Abraham Small (Reprint 1996 Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange), Vol. 2, App. pp. 31–89.

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professors to hold their lectures on campus. Tucker complied for a bit, but then returned to teaching his courses at his home.

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After Tucker resigned as justice in 1811, he returned to private practice in Williamsburg. Tucker was nominated by President

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Tucker became the first of many generations of legal scholars and politicians who would have a notable impact on Virginia.

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that became a valuable reference work for many American lawyers and law students in the early 19th century. President

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Philadelphia: William Young Birch and Abraham Small (Reprint 1996 Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange), Vol. 1, pp.i-xiii.

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Reflections on the Policy and Necessity of Encouraging the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States of America

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Reflections on the Policy and Necessity of Encouraging the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States of America

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Although Tucker was one of the most well-respected legal thinkers of his day, he would never be appointed to the

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after the Revolution's end in 1782, when the United States achieved independence. He began practicing before the

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A dissertation on slavery : with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the state of Virginia

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A dissertation on slavery : with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the state of Virginia

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in 1781, an exploding shell wounded Tucker, who was serving as an interpreter for Governor and General

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The General Assembly rejected Tucker's proposal. One member sympathetic to Tucker's cause noted that "

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Tucker-Coleman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

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A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia

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In 1778, Tucker married Frances (Bland) Randolph, a wealthy young widow who was the daughter of

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of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals died on October 23, 1803, and on January 6, 1804, the

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in various forms, he did not make any more proposals regarding emancipation to the Assembly.

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ancestry, as Virginia had ended Indian slavery in 1691 or 1705, depending on interpretation.

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The Virginian bench, bar, and government soon took notice of Tucker. In 1782 he presented an

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Institute of Bill of Rights Symposium: St. George Tucker and His Influence on American Law

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When he was Professor of Law and Police at the College of William & Mary, Tucker used

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Among other duties, Tucker's role as United States District Judge included sitting on the

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on January 19, 1813, and received his commission the same day. Tucker was reassigned by

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estate. Tucker suffered a stroke in 1827, dying six weeks later on November 10, 1827.

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degree and named him the new professor of law and police at an annual salary of £120.

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Laughlin, Charles V. (1982). "Henry St. George Tucker". In W. Hamilton Bryson (ed.).

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Tucker was elected by the legislature as a judge of the General Court of Virginia in

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The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia 1752-1830

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overseas. Attorneys would sometimes recommend a term of Tucker's courses to people

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Laughlin, Charles V. (1982). "John Randolph Tucker". In W. Hamilton Bryson (ed.).

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in 1662. The Tuckers were well-regarded in Port Royal. St. George's older brother

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Finkelman, Paul and David Cobin (1996). "An Introduction to St. George Tucker's

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Tucker expected that his plan would meet strong resistance from Virginia's elite

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Tucker, J. Randolph (1982). "Henry St. G. Tucker". In W. Hamilton Bryson (ed.).

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Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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Tucker, St. George (1803), "On the State of Slavery in Virginia", 74-76, 78-79.

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In 1795, at the urging of several friends, including former Virginia governor

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elected Tucker to the state Supreme Court of Appeals (known since 1970 as the

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Cullen, Charles T. (1982). "St. George Tucker". In W. Hamilton Bryson (ed.).

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as the basis of his course at the College, but added discussion on how the

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Reflections on the cession of Louisiana to the United States by Sylvestris

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moral character and domestic peace, but even to our political salvation."

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Hobson, Charles F., ed. (2013). "United States District Court Judge".

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Tucker, St. George (1803). "On the State of Slavery in Virginia". In

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of the state. The Wrights' master Houlder Hudgins appealed the case.

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migrated to Virginia in the 1760s after completing medical school in

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View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings

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View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings

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The Poems of St. George Tucker of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1752-1827

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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Hobson, Charles F., ed. (2013). "Judge of the Court of Appeals".

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representing Virginia, and later America's ambassador to Russia.

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After eight years as a judge on the General Court, Tucker wrote

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Reflections on the cession of Louisiana to the United States by

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