Libel Trial Rages Over Paine Biographer's History
A courtroom oration denounces the historian Paine biographer as a vile slanderer who exploits a woman's name to attack liberal causes. The speaker rebukes supposed christian defenders and attacks the book as malicious and untrue, citing Paine and Age of Reason in contrast.
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Ion
Pombe
Libeller
Tom Paine
Prince of
Kingdom of Heaven
Burke
Bishop Watson
Paine
Thomas Paine
Lovett’s
New York
Manly
Hitts
Hitts, (I Have Marked the Page Down For Your Inpection) and Mr. Hitts
France
Parliament Lords Debate on Power and Law in May Session
Lord Ethine voices alarm over Commons power and the rule of law. He emphasizes constitutional limits, cites Ellenborough and Pemberton cases, and warns against parliamentary usurpation of legal authority while urging independent, lawful judgment.
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House of Lords
Lord Ethine
House of Commons
Lord Ellenborough
Pemberton