• DOI:10.2307/743699
Corpus ID: 145310327

Massachusetts and the Judges: Judicial Independence in Perspective

@article{Black1985MassachusettsAT,
  title={Massachusetts and the Judges: Judicial Independence in Perspective},
  author={B. A. Black},
  journal={Law and History Review},
  year={1985},
  volume={3},
  pages={101-162}
}

• B. A. Black
• Published 1985
• Political Science
• Law and History Review

This is an essay about an incident that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the period 1772–1774, an incident that I will call the Affair of the Royal Salary. Close relative of the Stamp Act Crisis, The Boston Tea Party, even the Boston Massacre, the Affair of the Royal Salary similarly involved a clash between the forces of popular government and those of imperial government; like its better known cousins it is part of the story of the coming of the American Revolution in… Expand

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