Fwiw... I still do a lot of email submissions because of this and I think all my published articles were email submissions

This is like how he dismisses the Statute of Northampton as too early to matter in the gun rights context but then relies on the statutes of scandalum magnatum from the same period as a basis to limit First Amendment speech rights...

No... he wouldn't be... inconsistent?!?!

So while these books have seen better days, they are literally a part of US history. Tucker's Blackstone was a key resource for understanding how Americans viewed common law in the years following ratification. Masterly, Tucker adapted Blackstone's often anti-democratic work to a young republic.

Breckenridge had already served as the floor leader for Jeffersonians in Congress. Now he was the chief law enforcement officer in the Country. But, his term was cut short when, in 1806, he contracted tuberculosis.

"Both it’s duties & it’s emoluments are too well known to you to render it necessary for me to particularize them. ... Hoping that in your patriotism, & perhaps in other circumstances you will find motives sufficient to induce you to become a part of our administration."

Breckenridge accepted.

Years later, in 1805, Jefferson asked Breckinridge to serve as his attorney general, writing: "The office of Attorney General for the US. being not yet permanently filled, I have an opportunity of proposing it for your acceptance."

Jefferson added:

In Kentucky, Breckinridge made revisions and introduced the first resolutions. Importantly, he provided a means by which the States should seek repeal and removed language about nullification. In 1799, he shepherded the second set through too.

Despite this, some insisted it was Jefferson's doing.

Breckinridge was the vehicle for the Resolutions opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts enacted by Congress to keep. He was a main character in a conspiracy hatched to keep Jefferson's involvement a secret, having agreed to get them passed and solemnly promising not to ID Jefferson.