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  • (The 'a' in Cranch was a mistake, I'm assured by the designer.)

    Archive 2010-03-01 alison 2010

  • (The 'a' in Cranch was a mistake, I'm assured by the designer.)

    That'll keep you regular alison 2010

  • "Cranch," supplied the stranger, consulting his watch.

    On the Frontier Bret Harte 1869

  • A cousin of John Quincy Adams, Elizabeth Cranch, wrote of her love for dancing and her fear of the wrath of her cousin, who was “monstrously severe upon the follies of mankind.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Anybody who examines the Cranch Press Hamlet must agree that it is worthy of its reputation.

    2009 June 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) is a landmark case in United States law.

    AS SEEN ON TV: JOHN MARSHALL'S SUPREME COURT (1803) Toby O'B 2010

  • Indeed, it seems to have been the view of Chief Justice Marshall, who wrote in Ex Parte Bollman, 8 Cranch 75 (1807) that had the First Congress not provided an "efficient means by which this great constitutional privilege should receive life and activity ... the privilege itself would be lost, although no law for its suspension should be enacted."

    Balkinization 2007

  • Indeed, it seems to have been the view of Chief Justice Marshall, who wrote in Ex Parte Bollman, 8 Cranch 75 (1807) that had the First Congress not provided an "efficient means by which this great constitutional privilege should receive life and activity ... the privilege itself would be lost, although no law for its suspension should be enacted."

    Balkinization 2007

  • Indeed, it seems to have been the view of Chief Justice Marshall, who wrote in Ex Parte Bollman, 8 Cranch 75 (1807) that had the First Congress not provided an "efficient means by which this great constitutional privilege should receive life and activity ... the privilege itself would be lost, although no law for its suspension should be enacted."

    Balkinization 2007

  • Indeed, it seems to have been the view of Chief Justice Marshall, who wrote in Ex Parte Bollman, 8 Cranch 75 (1807) that had the First Congress not provided an "efficient means by which this great constitutional privilege should receive life and activity ... the privilege itself would be lost, although no law for its suspension should be enacted."

    Balkinization 2007

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