RESPUBLICA v. DOAN


1 U.S. 86 (1784)

1 Dall. 86

RESPUBLICA versus DOAN.

Supreme Court of United States.


On the 22d of November 1784, the President and Supreme Executive Council addressed the following letter to the Judges.

Gentlemen,

WE have perused, and attentively considered, the transcript of the record transmitted by you, of the attainder of Aaron Doan; and as it appears to us, a case of a novel and extraordinary nature, which, being once established as a precedent, may greatly affect the lives, liberties, and fortunes, of the Freemen of this Commonwealth...

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