Lloyd, Thomas [Reporter]:

THE TRIAL OF ALEXANDER ADDISON, ESQ. PRESIDENT OF THE COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS...ON AN IMPEACHMENT, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, BEFORE THE SENATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Lancaster: 1803. 14, 154pp. Untrimmed, lightly worn. Disbound, else Very Good.

Addison, a Pennsylvania Federalist, was presiding judge of its Court of Common Pleas. He had defended the Alien and Sedition Acts and denounced the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. Jeffersonians got their revenge after they assumed power in Pennsylvania. Addison's impeachment and removal from office became the model for a wave of similar actions against both federal and state judges. "Throughout America the bar was a sort of aristocracy, conservative to a degree that annoyed reformers of every class" [I Adams, History of the U.S., page 433].
This second edition issued, like the first, in 1803. It includes, not only the trial with much material on the nature of impeachment and Addison's lengthy justifications of his conduct, but also an Appendix which collects material on impeachment absent from the first edition.
Sabin 381. AI 3631 [2]. II Harv. Law Cat. 999. Marvin 472. Item #7500

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