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Cultivating the “higher law” in American jurisprudence: John Quincy Adams, neo‐classical rhetoric, and the Amistad case

Sean Patrick O'Rourke Assistant professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies & Theatre, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235
Pages 33-43 | Published online: 01 Apr 2009

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LeslieJ. Harris. (2010) Law as Father: Metaphors of Family in Nineteenth-Century Law. Communication Studies 61:5, pages 526-542.
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Sean Patrick O'Rourke. (2007) The Rhetorical Dynamics of Judicial Situations: Joseph Story, Ciceronian Rhetoric, and the Judicial Response to American Slavery. Advances in the History of Rhetoric 10:1, pages 43-71.
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LeslieJ. Harris. (2004) The court, child custody, and social change: The rhetorical role of precedent in a 19™ century child custody decision. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 34:1, pages 29-45.
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Marouf Hasian$suffix/text()$suffix/text(). (2000) Jurisprudence as performance: John Brown's enactment of natural law at Harper's Ferry. Quarterly Journal of Speech 86:2, pages 190-214.
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Marouf Hasian$suffix/text()$suffix/text() & A. Cheree Carlson. (2000) Revisionism and collective memory: The struggle for meaning in the Amistad affair. Communication Monographs 67:1, pages 42-62.
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John Angus Campbell. (1998) Rhetorical theory in the twenty‐first century: A neo‐classical perspective. Southern Communication Journal 63:4, pages 291-308.
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ToddF. McDorman. (1997) Challenging constitutional authority: African American responses to Scott v. Sandford . Quarterly Journal of Speech 83:2, pages 192-209.
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Sean Patrick O'Rourke. (2007) The Rhetorical Dynamics of Judicial Situations: Joseph Story, Ciceronian Rhetoric, and the Judicial Response to American Slavery. Journal for the History of Rhetoric 10:1, pages 43-71.
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