| Assignment #1 for Tuesday, September 7
to do:
1) A full and detailed summary of all the facts in the Forward v. Poulson case (see below) and an assessment of its legal significance
2) Outline the questions that it raises with regard to the development of appellate rules and the tensions between the King and the colonists
3) Provide an overview of the underlying historical issues in this case and explain how you think it relates to the reading assignment for last week and this (Brugger, Chapters 1 & 2). Is there anything in the supplementary reading provided on CD that is helpful in answering the question of the relevance or importance of this case?
You may answer the questions in any word processing or html format you find comfortable. Send your answers as an attachment to an email to ecpapenfuse@aol.com by no later than Monday, September 6, and also post them on your class assignment web site.
Your assignment website is at http://www.teachersmd.net, Leading Cases. Use your last name (upper and lower case) and a password that you have chosen and emailed to me at ecpapenfuse@aol.com.
Resources to consult in formulating your analysis/answers:
1) an official document in the case recently discovered in private hands (provided in hard copy and here as a pdf)
2) http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov. Use search terms derived from the document to find references to the case. Hint: use the advanced search and limit your search chronlogically to the decade surrounding the date of the document supplied, and be conscious of the fact that spelling can vary.
3) review some of the secondary literature supplied here in pdf format regarding the context of the case. Included are a table of population for Annapolis, 1699-1783 from Edward C. Papenfuse, In Pursuit of Profit, 1976, pp. 14-15; a table of population for Maryland for 1755 from The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps, 2003, p. 51, Chapter 6, "Convict Transportation after 1718," from Abbot Emerson Smith, Colonists in Bondage, 1947, pp. 110-135, a example of a passenger list, and tables from A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America, 1987. By 1770 about 1,000 convicts a year were being imported into Virginia and Maryland.
For Appeals to the King in Council from the Colonies see also Smith, Appeals ....
4) Secondary Sources:
Land, Aubrey C. The Dulanys of Maryland, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955, 1968, pp. 86-97.
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