Cash, Arthur H.: John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books, June, 2006 by Vile, John R.
Cash, Arthur H. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty New Haven: Yale University Press 482 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-300-10871-0 Publication Date: February 2006
This biography by a distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of English at SUNY--New Paltz, presents a remarkable portrait of the eighteenth-century Englishman (1726-97) whose name and likeness was virtually synonymous with liberty. Scholars of American constitutional thought probably know Wilkes as the individual whose experience in being kicked out of, and subsequently excluded from, Parliament for seditious libel against the king was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969), to explain why it regarded the constitutional qualifications for...
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