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	Andrew Hamilton
		Hamilton, in company with his son-in-law, Allen, purchased the ground now comprised within Independence square, Philadelphia, whereon to erect "a suitable building" to be used as a legislative hall, the assembly, prior to 1729, having met in a private residence.
		Hamilton was for many years a trustee of the general loan-office, the province's agency for issuing paper money, and in 1737 was appointed judge of the vice-admiralty court, the only office he held at the time of his death.
		Hamilton was again deputy-governor in 1759-'63, and on the departure of John Penn he administered the government as president of the council until the arrival of Richard Penn, in October, 1771.
	famousamericans.net /andrewhamilton (1171 words)

	Andrew Hamilton (lawyer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew Hamilton, the Scottish born immigrant who is perhaps best remembered as the architect for Philadelphia's Independence Hall and Pennsylvania's attorney general from 1729 to 1739.
		Lancaster became the fourth county in the state of Pennsylvania in 1729, whose principal founder was Andrew Hamilton.
		By 1734, James Hamilton, proprietor of Lancaster town and son of the distinguished lawyer Andrew Hamilton, won a seat in the Assembly and became the political leader of the county.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(lawyer) (416 words)

	James Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606–1649), heir to the throne of Scotland
		1710–1783), son of Andrew Hamilton, mayor of Philadelphia and lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania
		James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (1811–1885), twice served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Hamilton (237 words)

	Philadelphia Injury Lawyer Blog :: Published by Philadelphia Personal Injury and Employment Lawyer Edith A. Pearce
		I am proud to be a “Philadelphia Lawyer.” This term, Philadelphia lawyer, has always been synonymous with a cunning or shrewd lawyer, a super lawyer, who is able to use the technicalities of the law in his or her favor.
		But in his closing argument, Hamilton argued that the law as it stood was both immoral and wrongly applied and ought to be nullified by the jury.
		Because of lawyers and judges, that baby will no longer grow up in a country where they will be forced to go to a particular school based upon the color of their skin.
	www.philadelphiainjurylawyerblog.com (2440 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The Scottish-American lawyer Andrew Hamilton defended Zenger during the trial, which took place in 1735.
		Hamilton eloquently argued that the antiadministration allegations printed in the Journal were true and therefore not libelous.
		Despite the contrary opinion of the judge, the jury accepted Hamilton’s thesis and declared Zenger not guilty.
	historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ze003500.a (228 words)

	Mary Jane Bowen Hamilton
		Andrew Hamilton was said to be the most suitable person for reconstruction following the tragic war years.
		Hamilton was respected by the people of the state regardless of party affiliations.
		The gown representing Mary Jane Bowen Hamilton is a copy of the Mary Todd Lincoln gown in the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.twu.edu /firstladies/mj_hamilton.htm (193 words)

	Hamilton Village
		Hamilton Village, or Hamiltonville, was on the grounds of the Hamilton family and was laid out by William Hamilton sometime between 1804 and 1809.
		Hamilton was a prominent Mason, and it was largely through his financial and architectural efforts that the building which later came to be known as Independence Hall was constructed.
		Hamilton Village has the distinction of having one of the first public schools, the West Philadelphia School, which opened in a three story brick building built in 1842 at the southwest corner of 38th and Spruce Streets.
	www.uchs.net /Rosenthal/hamvil.html (1864 words)

	Trial of John Peter Zenger
		Hamilton's arguments in Zenger's case represented a considerable stretching of the rigorous law of libel as it stood in 1735.
		Hamilton has confessed the printing and publishing and nothing is plainer than that the words Zenger used, which are cited in the information, are scandalous, and tend to sedition, and to disquiet the minds of the people.
		Hamilton, the Court is of the opinion that you may not be permitted to prove the facts in the papers.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/zenger.html (8136 words)

	Account of Zenger Trial
		Andrew Hamilton, ignored the instructions of the Governor's hand-picked judges and returned a verdict of "Not Guilty" on the charge of publishing "seditious libels." The Zenger trial is a remarkable story of a divided Colony, the beginnings of a free press, and the stubborn independence of American jurors.
		Zenger's defense would fall to sixty-year-old Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, perhaps the ablest and most eloquent attorney in the colonies--though that was not the initial plan.
		Andrew Hamilton rose to argue that the law ought not to be interpreted to prohibit "the just complaints of a number of men who suffer under a bad administration." He suggested that the Zenger case was of transcendent importance:
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengeraccount.html (2746 words)

	Today in History: November 27
		Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton (like Zenger a former indentured servant turned successful businessman), directed his defense to the jury rather than the judge, hoping that a public fearful of royal abuses of power would condemn Cosby and protect Zenger.
		Hamilton conceded that Zenger had published articles critical of Cosby but eloquently argued that because the articles contained truths in the form of statements of verifiable facts, they could not be libelous.
		Along with John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, Livingston was instrumental in his role as chancellor in persuading New York to ratify the federal Constitution.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov27.html (1223 words)

	Record of the Trial of John Peter Zenger (from Zenger's 1736 Narrative)
		Hamilton has said, and the cases he has cited, for having his witnesses examined to prove the truth of the several facts contained in the papers set forth in the information.
		Hamilton, the Court is of the opinion that you ought not to be permitted to prove the facts in the papers.
		Hamilton, the jury may find that Zenger printed and published those papers, and leave it to the Court to judge whether they are libelous.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengerrecord.html (9315 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Lawyers are thus to have their legal rights determined by something less than the "law of the land" as it is accorded to other people.
		United States, 30 on a record which indicated that the primary reason for that imprisonment was the imputation to the lawyers of what the trial judge conceived of as the unpatriotic and treasonable designs of their clients.
		The lawyer's abilities, acquired through long and expensive education, and the goodwill attached to his practice, acquired in part through uncompensated services, are capital assets that belong to the lawyer - both as a lawyer and as a man, assuming that such a conceptualistic distinction can be drawn.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=366&invol=117 (10981 words)

	Special Thanksgiving Edition!
		In a more general, non-legal sense, a "Philadelphia lawyer" is anyone who simply loves to argue for the sake of arguing, and the more obscure the point of the argument the better.
		The original "Philadelphia lawyer," however, was one of the heroes of American history.
		It was a Philadelphia lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, who successfully defended Zenger by convincing the jury that Zenger's articles could not be libellous because they were true.
	www.word-detective.com /back-j.html (1727 words)

	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The land was bought by noted lawyer Andrew Hamilton in 1734.
		Hamilton also collected numerous native plants with his neighbors, the botanists of the Bartram family.
		Outside the mansion Hamilton built greenhouses that were home to the largest collection of plants in America.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=29&ObjectID=452 (393 words)

	HistoryBuff.com -- The Acquittal of John Peter Zenger - The First, First Report
		The prosecution argued that the sole fact of publication was sufficient to convict and excluded the truth from the evidence.
		Hamilton admitted that Zenger published the offending stories, but denied that it was libel unless it was false.
		Hamilton made an eloquent appeal to the jury to judge both the law and the facts; as a result was acquitted.
	www.historybuff.com /library/refzenger.html (449 words)

	Andrew Hamilton & Co.
		Lawyers, who like to think that they have a professional monopoly on winding up estates, love to exaggerate the difficulties of executry law.
		(Lawyers and banks don’t much like accountants who know that much of the “mystery” that surrounds an executry is to cover up their exorbitant charges).
		As co-executor with a lawyer, I made a plea to him to try and moderate his firm’s fees as the grieving widow was spectacularly poor.
	www.andrew-hamilton.co.uk /root/news/article_01.htm (1564 words)

	Andrew Hamilton - Encyclopedia.com
		Andrew Hamilton 1676?-1741, colonial American lawyer, defender of John Peter Zenger, b.
		He practiced law in Maryland and then Pennsylvania, where he became (1717) attorney general and held other offices.
		When the governing party in New York had disbarred all local lawyers who ventured to defend Zenger, Hamilton was brought in and by his brilliant defense secured Zenger's acquittal (1735), establishing truth as a defense against libel charges.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-HamiltAn2.html (478 words)

	The Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It was a lawyer, not a soldier, who set in motion the events that eventually secured the Constitution’s rights.
		Equally important were a German immigrant and a jury whose members’ spines were hardened by the eloquence of the Philadelphia lawyer, Andrew Hamilton.
		Hamilton argued that the libel law of England ought not to be the libel law of New York.
	www.thefacts.com /print.lasso?ewcd=691cd1ae70dde5e6 (488 words)

	Hamilton, Andrew, colonial American lawyer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1676?–1741, colonial American lawyer, defender of John Peter Zenger, b.
		He practiced law in Maryland and then Pennsylvania, where he became (1717) attorney general and held other offices.
		When the governing party in New York had disbarred all local lawyers who ventured to defend Zenger, Hamilton was brought in and by his brilliant defense secured Zenger’s acquittal (1735), establishing truth as a defense against libel charges.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/HamiltAn2.html (120 words)

	Museum of American Financial History
		The Report explained his plan to re-organize the debt of the nation and revealed Hamilton's intentions to refund existing debt, incurred during the Revolution under the failed Articles of Confederation, at face value.
		The speculators sailing south were armed only with their first-hand knowledge that Hamilton had just issued his plan to consolidate the nation's debts—and that it would take weeks for that news to reach the local newspapers of the South.
		The news of Hamilton's plan would send those values skyrocketing—and by outracing the news, the speculators were able to buy these bonds for a song.
	www.financialhistory.org /EXHIBITS/fmfp/fmfp_markets.htm (763 words)

	Civil Rights and Civil Liberties - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Defendants in state as well as federal criminal cases are assured that they cannot be imprisoned for an offense unless represented by a lawyer, or counsel; if a defendant is impoverished, such counsel must be supplied by the government.
		Defendants must be warned that they may not be questioned until counsel is provided, and defendants may not be convicted on the basis of confessions obtained by coercion.
		Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had legal effect only since 1982, it seems to have prompted Canadians to take their cases to courts in larger numbers, and it has prompted a greater constitutional activism than before from Canada’s highest court.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761555666__1/Civil_Rights_and_Civil_Liberties.html (6386 words)

	Andrew Hamilton Skidmore - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Andrew Hamilton Skidmore, of Columbus, is a prominent citizen, able lawyer, and distinguished jurist.
		Predilection led him to prepare for the profession of law, for which profession he was educated in the law department of the University of Michigan, where he completed a two-years course in 1875.
		The father was born in Hardy county, that state, June 17, 1830, a son of Andrew Skidmore, of Irish lineage.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/s3/skidmore_andrew_hamilton.html (609 words)

	Newspapers- Part I - Historical Perspective
		This got off to a bad start with two of Zenger's lawyers were disbarred for trying to have the judge removed from the case.
		Hamilton forcefully argued that "truth" was a valid defense for libel.
		The strength of Hamilton's argument rested on the concept that truth is essential to liberty and that no person or institution should be able to stand in the way of truth.
	www.internetcampus.com /frtv/newsp1.htm (1272 words)

	NYNY 1735-1739
		John Peter Zenger, defended by Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton, is acquitted in a libel case in New York City, establishing the tradition of Freedom of the Press in America.
		Hamilton sails for Philadelphia, honored by salutes from ships in the harbor.
		New York's Common Council votes Andrew Hamilton the freedom of the city a seal in a gold box.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1735.html (440 words)

	Journalism and Law
		The courts were stacked against him, but Benjamin Franklin became interested in the case and persuaded Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton, in his 80s, to defend Zenger.
		The statute required only proof that Zenger was the publisher (i.e., not proof that it was a lie -- in fact, it was accepted that he could tell the truth and still be guilty of libel).
		A lawyer for one major newspaper has recommended that reporters discard all notes and drafts to prevent discovery of motives through such means; at least avoid "cute comments or wisecracks" -- but most legal experts recommend retaining notes as they show the meticulous process of newsgathering and writing.
	www.northern.edu /hastingw/journlaw.html (1750 words)

	Pennsylvania's State Houses and Capitols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Andrew Hamilton, eminent lawyer and for many years clerk of assembly, became chief proponent of a site and of a plan for the structure.
		Hamilton had building materials gathered together for it, executed a rough drawing of his concept of how it should be constructed, and spurred preparations.
		In the summer of 1736 John Penn, "the American," only son of the Founder born in Pennsylvania, made a payment of five pounds to Edmund Woolley for his more expert designs for the new Provincial State House, then completed in its broader proportions.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/houses/page1.asp?secid=31 (325 words)

	Unfettered Press: Constitutional Protection
		In 1735, New York publisher John Peter Zenger was tried for "publishing a false, scandalous, and seditious Libel, in which...the King's immediate representative here is greatly and unjustly scandalized." What Zenger had done was publish attacks on the Royal Governor [of the colonies] accusing him of corruption and incompetence.
		Zenger was found guilty under the law of libel at the time, but his lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, successfully appealed to the jury to recognize the truth of Zenger's accusations and strike a blow for those who speak or write the truth.
		Hamilton's successful defense of Zenger became the foundation for an American dedication to a free and freewheeling press that continues to this day.
	usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/press/press02.htm (1881 words)

	b. New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The court contended that it should decide the libelous nature of the statements made and that the jury should determine the fact of publication.
		Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, argued that the jury must decide whether or not the publication was libelous.
		He won his suit, thereby materially safeguarding the freedom of the press.
	www.bartleby.com /67/935.html (534 words)

	Are Lawyers Entitled to the Full Sweep of Due Process Protections?
		It is to the lasting credit and renown of the colo- nial bar that Andrew Hamilton, a lawyer of Philadelphia, defied the hostility of the judges, defended and brought about the acquittal of Zenger.” Cohen, at 140-141.
		that lawyers are not entitled to the full sweep of due pro- cess protections because they had no such protections against judges or their fellow lawyers in England.
		Alexander Hamilton, Zenger’s successor counsel, was able to win an acquittal of Zenger by requesting that the jury not give a special verdict, which the court requested, but give a general verdict of not guilty on a charge of seditious libel, which the jury did.
	www.falseallegations.com /drano102-bbo-star-chamber-92503-forum.htm (7484 words)

	Jury Nullification
		He clearly was guilty of breaking the law, which held that true statements could be libelous.
		However Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, addressed himself to the jury, arguing that the court's law was outmoded.
		Hamilton contended that falsehood was the principal thing that makes a libel.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/j/p/jph13/JuryNullification.html (762 words)

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