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  1. “A Clear Dichotomy” (with Jay S. Goodman). National Civil Review 56 (September 1967): 447–52, 469. The Local Government Article of the proposed Rhode Island constitution.
  2. “The Dorr Rebellion.” Rhode Island Yearbook, 1967, H80-H88.
  3. “The Real Ichabod Crane.” American Literature 40 (March 1967): 70–71.
  4. “Rhode Island Constitutional Development, 1636–1775: A Survey.” Rhode Island History 27 (April–June 1968): 49–63, 74–94. Reprinted in Rhode Island Bar Annual 5 (1968): 62–91.
  5. “Rhode Island’s Paper Money Issue and Trevett v. Weeden (1986).” Rhode Island History 30 (August 1971): 95–108. Reprinted in abridged form in Rhode Island Reports 116 (1976): 964–74.
  6. “The Dorr Rebellion: Rhode Island’s Crisis in Constitutional Government.” American Chronicle: A Magazine of History 1 (January 1972): 48–53.
  7. “Brooks Adams’ Law of Civilization and Decay.” Essex Institute Historical Collections 108 (April 1972): 89–98.
  8. “Rhode Island in Disunion, 1787–1790.” Rhode Island History 31 (November 1972): 99–115.
  9. “The Supreme Court on Abortion: A Dissenting Opinion” (with R. J. McKenna). Catholic Lawyer 19 (Winter 1973): 19–28. Reprinted without documentation in Review for Religious 32 (May 1973): 473–81. Published also in Providence Visitor, February 23, 1973. Reprinted in Glenn A. Phelps and Robert A. Porier, eds., Contemporary Debates on Civil Liberties: Enduring Constitutional Questions (Lexington, MA: D.C. Health & Co., 1985), pp. 204–10.
  10. “State Restrictions on Local Government Debt with Special Reference to Rhode Island,” “State Restrictions on the Taxing Powers of Local Government with Special Reference to Rhode Island,” and “An Annotated Bibliography of Works Relating to the Development of Local Government in Rhode Island, 1636–1972.” In Robert W. Sutton, Jr., ed., Rhode Island Local Government: Past, Present, Future, pp. 70–77, 78–82, 153–66. Kingston, RI: URI Bureau of Government Research, 1974.
  11. “Rhode Island’s Latin Americans — An Historical Profile” (with John Carpenter). Providence Visitor, August 9, 16, and 23, 1974.
  12. “State Aid to Rhode Island’s Private Schools: A Case Study of DiCenso v. Robinson” (with Fernando S. Cunha). Catholic Lawyer 22 (Autumn 1976): 329–43.
  13. “Rhode Island Constitutional Issues during the Early National Period.” In Linda L. Levin, ed., Federal Rhode Island: The Age of the China Trade, pp. 1–37. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1978.
  14. “Ethnic Politics in Rhode Island: The Case of the Franco-Americans.” In Marcel P. Fortin, ed., Woonsocket, RI: The Americanization of a Foreign City, pp. 11–13. Providence: Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, 1981. Reprinted in Old Rhode Island, June 1993, pp. 16–22.
  15. “Rhode Island.” In Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, ed. Moshe Y. Sachs et al., pp. 481–86. New York: Worldmark Press, 1981.
  16. “Rhode Island.” In Encyclopedia Americana (1983), 23: 472–86.
  17. “Death Knell for the Death Penalty: The Gordon Murder Trial and Rhode Island’s Abolition of Capital Punishment.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 34 9May 1986): 11–15. Winner of the First Annual Writing Contest of the Rhode Island Bar Association. An earlier version published in Providence Visitor, July 6, 1973.
  18. “Rhode Island History — An Outline.” In Rhode Island Manual for 1985–1986, prepared by Secretary of State Susal L. Farmer, pp. 131–75.
  19. “Rhode Island’s Crisis in Constitutionalism: The Dorr Rebellion and the Origins of the Present State Constitution.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 35 (October 1986): 12–15, 19–22.
  20. “First in War; Last in Peace: Rhode Island and the Constitution, 1786–1790.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 35 (May 1987): 11–19.
  21. “Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs in Rhode Island: Church, State, and the Constitution, 1636–1986.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 35 (June–July 1987): 14–19.
  22. “Anne Hutchinson — Founding Mother.” East Bay Newspapers, August 18, 1988 (Portsmouth 300th anniversary commemorative issue).
  23. “Thomas Wilson Dorr,” “Henry Bowen Anthony,” “Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich,” and “Charles Ray Brayton.” In Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections, ed. Louis Maisel. New York, 1990.
  24. “Rhode Island.” In the Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America, ed. John Mack Faragher, pp. 368–70. New York, 1990.
  25. “The Irish of Bristol.” In Bristol Heritage and Discovery Celebration: Commemorative Book, 1492–1992 (1992). Reprinted as “The Irish in Rhode Island and the Bristol Connection” in Old Rhode Island, March 1993, pp. 7–13.
  26. “No Tempest in a Teapot: The Dorr Rebellion in National Perspective.” Rhode Island History 50 (August 1992): 67–100.
  27. “The Biography of Nelson W. Aldrich (November 6, 1841–April 16, 1915).” Old Rhode Island, September 1992, p. 20.
  28. “The Biography of Charles R. Brayton.” Old Rhode Island, October 1992, pp. 16–17.
  29. “The Dorr Rebellion and American Constitutional Theory: Popular Constituent Sovereignty, Political Questions, and the Case of Luther v. Borden.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 41 (November 1992): 19–25. Simultaneously published in Joyce M. Botelho, ed., Right and Might: The Dorr Rebellion and the Struggle for Equal Rights, pp. 79–90. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1992.
  30. “Thomas Wilson Dorr (November 5, 1805-December 27, 1854).” Old Rhode Island, December 1992–January, 1993, pp. 61–62.
  31. “Rhode Island Profiles: Famed Irish Leaders from Rhode Island’s Past.” Old Rhode Island, March 1993, pp. 18–20.
  32. “Ethnic Politics in Rhode Island: The Decisive Role of the Franco-Americans.” Old Rhode Island, June-July 1993, pp. 16–22.
  33. “The Last Shall Be First: Rhode Island’s Statehood Stamp.” Old Rhode Island, January–February 1995, pp. 18–20.
  34. “Separation of Powers in Rhode Island.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 44 (October 1995): 9–11.
  35. “Matthew Harkins: Catholic Bishop and Educator.” Rhode Island History 53 (August 1995): 70–89.
  36. “Andersonville and the Civil War Prison System.” Bristol Phoenix, March 7, 1996, pp. 17–20; March 14, 1996, pp. 21–22. A review of the Turner Network Television documentary film on Andersonville.
  37. “Rhode Island.” An essay prepared for a CD-ROM production entitled New England Business and Pleasure Guide, by John Chaffee, 1996.
  38. “Rhode Island.” An article prepared for the 1997 edition of the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.
  39. “State of Rhode Island v. the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery (1833): The Legal and Geographical Setting.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 47 (May 1999): 5–7, 32–35. Published in an earlier abbreviated version in Bristol Phoenix, November 18, 1998, pp. 8–9.
  40. “Rhode Island [Irish].” In The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, ed. Michael Glazier, pp. 803–8. Notre Dame, Inc.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
  41. “Charles Ray Brayton” and “Thomas Wilson Dorr.” In American National Biography, ed. John a. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 3: 447–48, 6: 759–61. New York, 1999.
  42. “Revising the Revisionists: A Review Essay.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 48 (November 1999): 17–19, 40–42. The Supreme Court advisory opinion on separation of powers.
  43. “Joseph R. Weisberger: A Life in Law.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 49 (February 2001): 5–9, 32–42.
  44. “Founding Lawyers: Doing Justice to the Legal Architects of Rhode Island Statehood.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 50 (March/April, 2002): 15–17, 33–35.
  45. “Rhode Island’s Legal Luminaries, 1830–1860.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 51 (May/June 2003): 9–11, 28–31).
  46. “Article VI, Section 4: A Case Study in Constitutional Obsolescence.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 53 (September/October 2004): 7–11.
  47. “Providence, R.I.” In Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.
  48. “Rhode Island.” In Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.
  49. “Remembering Florence Murray: Rhode Island’s Woman of the Century.” Rhode Island Bar Journal 53 (May/June, 2005): 5–7.
  50. “Rhode Island.” In Encyclopedia of New England, ed. By Burt Feintuck and David H. Watters, pp. 705–07. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  51. “Dorr Rebellion.” In Encyclopedia of New England, ed by Burt Feintuck and David H. Watters, p. 683. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  52. “No Landless Irish Need Apply: Rhode Island’s Role in the Framing and Fate of the Fifteenth Amendment.” Rhode Island History, 68 (Summer/Fall 2010), 79–90.
  53. “The Origins of the Governor’s Pardoning Power.” Rhode Island Bar Journal, 59 (May/June 2011): 31–35.
  54. “Separating Church and State and Fact and Fiction in Early Rhode Island.” Preface to Erik J. Chaput and James P. Shea, Rhode Island and the Establishment Clause: Curriculum Guide for Secondary Educators (2012) http://www.rihs.org/rhode-island-and-the-establishment-clause/.
  55. “Laboratory for the Lively Experiment” in A Lively Experiment: Reflections on the Charter of 1663, ed. Ted Widmer (2013).
  56. “Rhode Island and the War of 1812: A Bicentennial Bust.” Rhode Island History, Spring, 2014.
  57. “The Rhode Island Patent of 1644 and the Acts and Orders of 1647”; “The Rhode Island Charter of 1663”; “Roger Williams and Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Dorr Rebellion” in Stephen L. Schechter, ed. American Governance, 5 vols. Macmillan/Gale Publishing, 2016.
  58. “Rhode Island Hall of Fame Honorees: Six Legal Luminaries,” Rhode Island Bar Journal, May/June, 2015, 25–30.
  59. “Liberty Ships and More: Civilian Workers and Manufacturers Bolster the War Effort,” in Christian McBurney, et al., World War II Rhode Island, Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2016, pp. 77–88, 172–73.