Delaware
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
One of the original states whose constitution is quoted to show that the term 'state' consistently denotes a sovereign, self-governing political society.
The government shall be called the Delaware state.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A U.S. state whose statutory juror qualifications or selection method are surveyed as part of the author's state-by-state argument that American juries are generally illegal.
How jurors are appointed, and what are their qualifications, in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, Kentucky, Iowa, Texas, and California, I know not.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
State listed among those using 'freeman'/'freemen' repeatedly in its constitution.
Several of the constitutions, to wit, those of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York—but not Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts or New Hampshire—repeatedly use the word “freeman” or “freemen,” when describing the electors, or other members of the state.