The Case Trevett Against Weeden Specie vs Paper

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On Information and Complaint, for refusing PAPER BILLS in payment for Butcher's Meat, in Market, at Par with Specie

A free google ebook of a case argued before the GENERAL ASSEMBLY at Providence in the October session 1786

Wherein the Rights of the People to Trial by Jury &c. are stated and maintained and the Legislative, Judiciary and Executive Powers of Government examined and defined.


http://books.google.com/books?id=8KNXAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=trevett+against++weeden&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LlJkUoj2MJO4yAGpmoGgCQ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=trevett%20against%20%20weeden&f=false


Dollars will get you donuts that THIS particular case is not found cited much these days!!!!

7th trupm ... If you can wade through this material there might be hope for you.

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'The moment therefore that this Court feels itself dependent upon the Legislature, in the exercise of its judiciary powers, there will be an end of political liberty: For there is not an individual of mankind but wishes, if possible, to be exempt from the compacts that bind others. And there may be conjunctures in which the love of natural liberty will bid defiance to the restraints of law, if the Legislature are blindly guided by the general impulse. Or should these attachments be more strongly fixed to the interests of a few designing men than to the public wish, tyranny would spring out of anarchy. In either case, the interposition of the Judiciary may save the constitution, at least for a time; and, by averting the immediate evil, will give scope for reflection, and so prevent a dissolution of government.'