Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P18 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 158 BRYAN TREATIES The humblest citizen OF ALL the land when clad in the ARMOR OF A righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of Error. William Jennings BRYAN the Illinois Constitutional Convention during 1869 and 1870. As a lawyer Browning specialized in cases involving the Midwestern railroad system. Browning died August 10 1881 in Quincy Illinois. BRYAN TREATIES Beginning in 1913 . secretary of state william jennings bryan negotiated a number of bilateral treaties for the Advancement of Peace. The basic aim of these bilateral treaties was to prevent war by interjecting a conciliation process into a dispute between parties to the treaty. Each signatory nominated two members one a national and one a foreign citizen to a permanent commission. These four would then choose a fifth member who could not be a national of either state. The commission would review the underlying facts to the dispute and issue a report on the controversy within one year. Until the report was issued the parties agreed to refrain from resorting to hostilities. it was hoped that this process and the inherent delay in issuing a report would lessen tension and preclude resort to armed force to settle the dispute although each was free to do so after the report was issued. Eventually forty-eight of these treaties were concluded but few disputes were ever submitted to any of the commissions. V BRYAN WILLIAM JENNINGS William Jennings Bryan was a prominent figure in . politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is perhaps best known for his role as assistant to the prosecution in the famous scopes monkey trial of 1925. Bryan was born March 19 1860 in salem illinois. His was a devoutly religious family that prayed together three times a day and stressed strict adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible. His parents silas Lilliard Bryan and Mariah Elizabeth Jennings Bryan were firm believers in education. His mother schooled Bryan and his siblings in their
