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David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Founding Chair, Academic Freedom Alliance; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. All opinions are mine alone. Personal website at https://keithewhittington.com/
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@kewhittington.bsky.socialI get the instinct, but at the same time, your mind would be blown by Texas trial courts.
Show PostIn case you wanted a sense of what the truth-seeking enterprise is up against.
Show PostMost aliens were artisans — servant was a catchall term that included many varieties of worker from domestic menials to agricultural labourers to apprentices and journeymen. But most aliens lived in urban environments and most worked in artisanal occupations.
Show PostLigeance named territory consisted of lands under the king's obedience and jurisdiction. To be "within the ligeance" was to be on the king's soil. To be "outside the ligeance" was to be born beyond it. The word marked a jurisdictional boundary on the ground. It was not describing a type of loyalty.
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