Thirty-four of the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention were lawyers. Don't know how many actually signed - but they would have been heavily involved in the drafting
. FYI: Twenty-two of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were lawyers - another nine were judges ...
Yes, the Constitution and other laws was/were the start of American Statute law, we did not go the Common Law route...
No - we did not go the Common Law route, with one exception. Many SCOTUS cases declare that when American Law is found lacking, resort must be made to English Common Law - from whence American Law was derived. There was a famous patent and trademark case about this ...
Question? Were they lawyers or just trained in law?
Take Jefferson ... wide ranging education/interests including law....but a lawyer?
If I remember most colleges of the colonial period had limited areas of study...Theology, law, Engineering? That was about it! I think Harvard was began as a Theology College....
Liberals all over are keeling over at that factoid.....LOLOLOL
“Thirty-four of the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention were lawyers. Don’t know how many actually signed - but they would have been heavily involved in the drafting....”
Holy Heck! the same problem we have in the Congress today!
“No - we did not go the Common Law route, with one exception. Many SCOTUS cases declare that when American Law is found lacking, resort must be made to English Common Law - from whence American Law was derived. There was a famous patent and trademark case about this ...”
Even today The US and British Admirality Courts regularily cite each others rulings.....probably because of our mutual Laws of the Sea Treaties, and our very similar overall Philosophy of Law.....