[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bill of Rights" (OED Sense 2.b.)

Thu Dec 15 23:07:48 UTC 2022

Great work Fred and Stephen. The publication year of the edition in
HathiTrust of “The Trial of Col. Aaron Burr on an Indictment of
Treason” printed by Westcott & Company is 1807 (instead of 1808). The
same year as the trial year. There are three matches for “Bill of
Rights” in the book.

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082308671
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082308671?urlappend=%3Bseq=55%3Bownerid=27021597764442841-59

Garson

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 1:04 PM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> This is confirmed at hathitrust.org with Col. added to the book title, The Trial of Col. Aaron Burr....
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082308671&view=1up&seq=55
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> Subject: Antedating of "Bill of Rights" (OED Sense 2.b.)
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> Bill of Rights (OED, 2.b., 1819)
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> According to Gerard N. Magliocca, The Heart of the Constitution (2018), "During Aaron Burr's treason trial in 1807, his attorney Edmund Randolph ... described the Sixth Amendment right of a criminal defendant to be confronted with any adverse witnesses as part of 'the Bill of Rights.'"  Magliocca's footnote cites to T. Carpenter, ed., The Trial of Aaron Burr on an Indictment for Treason (Washington, DC: Westcott, 1808), I:49.  I have not verified the Carpenter source.
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> Fred Shapiro
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