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Rules and Minutes of the Forensic Club
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Rules, bylaws, membership and attendance records, and minutes of proceedings, including proposed questions for discussion, e.g. "Whether a Man who only attempts to kill another ought to be punished with Death" (1764, Nov. 12); "Whether a lawyer may defend a Criminal knowing him to be such?" (1765, Apr. 22); "Whether Toleration Ought to be Allowed" (Sept. 2, 1765), or "If one may take up Arms to deliver Subjects from the York of a strange Prince who is become a Tyrant?" (1765, Nov. 25) and the appointed speakers to argue "on the Affirmative" and "on the Negative;" commendations, and fines (mostly for "impious language," nonattendance, or "not speaking according to Appointment.")
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