Bench And Bar Of Ohio 1939 1940 PDF Download

Excerpt from Bench and Bar of Ohio, Vol. 2: A Compendium of History and Biography, Illustrated With Steel-Plate and Half-Tone Engravings One of the most accurate and painstaking historians of the Western Reserve has said SO little was known at this time, of the respective powers of the State and of the United States, under the Constitution of 1787, -that many of the parties thought the Land Company had received political authority and could found here a new State. They imagined themselves, like William Penn, to be proprietors, coupled with the rights of self government. He further says: Both parties to the transaction imagined that the deed of Connecticut conveyed powers of civil government to the company, and that the grantees might organize a new State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.