Virginia
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the state of Virginia
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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.
Virginia.
” Virginia, when a colony, oppressed by a mercantile or money-making charter, having the acquisition of wealth, and not the good of the colony for its object, was saved by taking refuge from it under a king;
Maryland and Virginia could not have conveyed to congress twenty miles square, because congress is only permitted to receive and govern ten.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
American colony/state used as the primary example of defective slave legislation.
In 1776, the only statute in Virginia, under which the slaveholders could make any claim at all to their slaves, was passed as late as 1753, (one hundred and thirty-three years after slavery had been introduced;
If they could not do this, then it follows that all the colored persons in Virginia, up to 1753, (only twenty-three years before the revolution,) and all their descendants to the present time, were and are free;
Incredible as it may seem, slavery had existed in Virginia fifty years before even a statute was passed for the purpose of declaring who might be slaves;
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.
In Virginia, they are required to have a property qualification of one hundred dollars.
In Virginia, the jurors are selected by the sheriffs;
The Genius of the Common Law
American colony/state associated with St. George Tucker and discussed as lacking early presumption in favor of Common Law.
Outside New England there was not the same downright aversion to English law and procedure, but it would be hard to find even in Virginia or the Carolinas, within the same period, any received presumption in favour of the Common Law being the groundwork of local jurisprudence.
George Tucker of Virginia when he presided over the American Bar Association some years ago.