“The new American colonists jettisoned law French.” Law French had largely disappeared in England before the end of the 17th century. The American colonists made use of Blackstone, which was written in English. All English statutes had been written in English since the late 15th century. Might as well say the colonists jettisoned serfdom.

This may be the “Golden Age of legal scholarship,” but it seems lawyers are still lousy historians.

I presume a political demonstration is fairly self-explanatory!

I also hope you are doing something with law because the best thing I can find for legal scholarship is in a very complicated article below.

I argued that law blogging provides readers with much better coverage of important appellate cases than does the MSM, and as an example pointed to Dale Carpenter’s VC posts on gay marriage cases. I also suggested that comment threads on legal blogs provide people with an opportunity that, in the olden days, mostly belonged only to on-campus law students: having a serious, enjoyable pro/con discussion of legal issues.

That’s why I come here on a daily basis.

Well said! The US Constitution is four (4) pages long – add in the Bill of Rights and it is still under 20 pages – and all of it readable!

Flash forward to today – the current (one of an interminable list of) health care bill is over 1,500 pages of (pardon my french) legal gibberish.

It is as if our Congress Persons really don’t want us to know what is in the bill and are trying to wear us down with fatigue.

Are you suggesting that English statutes at that time were all written in Law French? I must say, the English Bill of Rights, for example, looks to me to be written in comprehensible English, as American politicians presumably agreed. Else why did they crib so much of it for their own Bill of Rights a century later?