Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Fears of a Young Republic | 5
American History Tellers
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The Burr trial is significant for a number of things partly for the kind of legal precedent that were established at the trial. Jefferson hoped to get a lot of the trial that he didn't get out of the trial He could see early that Burr was going to be exonerated or at least let off by mid-summer His goal was actually to use the trial To get Americans to make a change in the Constitution That would end the lifetime Appointments for Supreme Court justices.
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