Michael H. Burchett

The Puritans of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony formed a tightly knit community with a common belief system enforced by civil and ecclesiastical law.

The central issue in the Boykin case was the responsibility of a criminal court to safeguard the rights of the accused.

Lenny Bruce is often considered the most influential figure in modern comedy, a pioneer of the acerbic social satire that would dominate the genre in the latter half of the twentieth century.