CONFERENCE
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:00 – 9:00
Registration and refreshments
9:00 – 10:45 Opening
Plenary Session
Welcome:
Allen M. Ward, President, ASCH
Wesley W. Horton, President, CSCHS
Chief Justice Chase
T. Rogers,
Connecticut Supreme Court
The Honorable Peter T. Zarella,
Connecticut Supreme Court
Jeremy Paul, Dean, UConn School of
Law
George J. Willauer, President, Acorn
Club
Presentation of
ASCH Linsley and Babbidge Awards: Nancy H. Steenburg
Keynote:
Christopher Collier,
University of Connecticut, Emeritus, “Why Connecticut
Really Is the Constitution State”
Break 10:45 – 11:00
I.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 11:00 – 12:30
1. ZEPHANIAH SWIFT AND THE
CONSTITUTION OF 1818
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Chair: Donald W. Rogers,
Central Connecticut State University and Housatonic Community College
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Colin Tait,
University of Connecticut School of Law,
“Zephaniah
Swift: A Biographical Sketch”
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Jacob Zeldes,
Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, “Zephaniah Swift, His Best
Friend, and Peter Lung”
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Michael Besso,
University of Connecticut, “Zephaniah Swift: The
Unintended Consequences of Political Entrepreneurship”
2. MURDER AND JUSTICE FOR MINORITIES
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Chair: Alan Rogers,
Boston College
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Richard D. Brown,
University of Connecticut, “The Murder of Hannah Simons,
an Indian Woman, and the Challenge of Equal
Justice in Windham County, Connecticut, 1805”
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Lawrence B. Goodheart,
University of Connecticut/Hartford,
“Capital Punishment
and the Constitution of 1818”
3. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE AFRICAN
AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL RIGHTS
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Chair: Guocun Yang,
Manchester Community College
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Bruce P. Stark,
Connecticut State Library, “No Taxation without the
Franchise: The
Beginnings of the African American
Quest for Civil Rights, 1803-1823”
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Peter P. Hinks,
Independent Historian, “How White or Black Must the Voter
Be: The Parameters of Suffrage and the
Constitution of 1818”
Buffet Luncheon 12:30 – 1:30
II. PLENARY SESSION 1:30 – 3:00
4. THE
CONSTITUTION OF 1818
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Chair: Walter W. Woodward,
Connecticut State Historian
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Douglas M. Arnold,
Editor, The Public Records of the State of Connecticut,
“The Public Records Project and the Political, Constitutional, and
Ecclesiastical Transformations of 1816-1818”
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Richard Buel, Jr.,
Wesleyan University, “Original Discontents: The Political
Context of Connecticut’s Constitution of 1818”
Break 3:00 – 3:15
III. CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3:15 – 4:45
5. LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL
BIOGRAPHY
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Chair: Christopher Clark,
University of Connecticut
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Martin C. Babicz,
University of Colorado, “Thomas Fitch and the Relationship
between Law And Politics in Eighteenth-Century
Connecticut”
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Paul E. Baran,
Connecticut State Library, “Moses Warren: Surveyor of
Land, Jeffersonian Republican, and Father of
Districting”
6. THE COLLAPSE OF THE STANDING
ORDER, 1800 - 1818
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Chair: Jon Purmont,
Southern Connecticut State University
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George Curley,
California State University at Long Beach,
“The Fall of
the Standing Order,
1800-1818”
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Michael Besso,
University of Connecticut, “The 1804 Pamphlet War and the
Movement for a New
Constitution”
7. NINETEENTH CENTURY LEGAL AND
CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATES
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Chair: David O. White,
Independent Historian
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Richard DeLuca,
Independent Historian, “Competition v. Monopoly:
Transportation and the Law in Nineteenth-Century
Connecticut”
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Nancy H. Steenburg,
University of Connecticut/Avery Point,
“New Justice or
Justice Denied? Changes in Connecticut’s Treatment
of Juvenile Offenders in the 19th Century”
8. TWENTIETH CENTURY CONSTITUTIONAL
ISSUES
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Chair: Lawrence J. DeNardis,
University of New Haven
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Philip A. Grant, Jr.,
Pace University, “Connecticut and the Repeal of the
Prohibition Amendment, 1932-1933”
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Wesley W. Horton,
Horton, Shields & Knox, “The Impact of the 1818
Constitution on the
1965 Constitution”
Closing Reception 4:45 – 5:30
Directions to University of Connecticut School of Law
Take Route I-84 to exit 46. Turn right onto Sisson Avenue. At second traffic light, turn right
onto Farmington Avenue, and immediately left onto Sherman
Street. The Law School is directly ahead, where Sherman Street
meets Fern Street. Ample parking is available. The conference will
be held in William F. Starr Hall.
For additional directions,
see:
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