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Rh Commentaries had been sold in the colonies as in England. For over a hundred years it was considered the foundation of all legal education in America. A British magazine put it thus: that the courts of Michigan are more Anglo-Saxon than those of Edinburgh. Specific differences there were but the underlying principles and ideals were usually identical.

In the determination of the status of the Irish-American, common legal theories have always been utilized to maintain peace. In 1866, the Fenians planned to send an expedition composed of Irish-Americans, Civil War veterans and Irish immigrants from New York against Canada. A proclamation of neutrality was immediately issued by the President warning all citizens against the violation of the laws of neutrality and exhorting the United States officials to employ all their lawful authority to defeat the expedition and to bring to justice all persons engaged therein? This declaration was in entire harmony with the previous American demand, fully complied with by Great Britain, that Canada should not in any way be used by the Confederates as a base of their military operations, Again in 1866 naturalized Irish-Americans when arrested while traveling or sojourning in Ireland upon complaints of complicity in seditious proceedings began to demand protection accorded by their American citizenship. Mr. Charles Francis