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Aedanus Burke was born in 1743 and was the grandson of an officer under James II in the Irish uprising of 1689-90.
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Aedanus Burke was born in 1743 and was the grandson of an officer under James II in the Irish uprising of 1689-90.
A letter of December 2, 1769, shows him at that time hard at work studying law in Stafford County, Virginia.
In February 1778 Burke resigned a lieutenant's commission in the 2nd South Carolina Continental Regiment, and a month later was appointed one of the associate judges of the state. In his charge to the grand jury of Ninety Six District in May, he set forth the democratic basis of the new state government, and rejoiced in the abolition of the "unnatural distinctions of nobleman and commons. "
On the fall of Charleston two years later the courts were suspended not to be opened until 1783, and the judge again took the field, this time as captain of the militia. He was representative in the legislature in 1781 and 1782, and from 1784 to 1789. The leading issue in South Carolina during the years immediately following the Revolution was the treatment of the Loyalists. Burke always voted for leniency.
In 1783 he published an admirably written pamphlet, An Address to the Freemen of South Carolina, in which he appealed for amnesty on grounds of humanity, public policy, and legal principle. He flayed John Rutledge as the originator of the confiscation policy. In another pamphlet of the same year he gave full vent to his distrust of the forms of nobility.
His Considerations on the Order of the Cincinnati (1783) had a wide circulation in the United States, and was translated by Mirabeau into French under his name. English and German translations of this then appeared. In the South Carolina convention for ratifying the Federal Constitution Burke appeared as a representative of a back-country district, and voted against adoption.
In 1785 an act of the legislature appointed him, with Justices Grimké and Pendleton, on a commission to revise and digest the South Carolina law. The digest was reported in 1789. It was not adopted as a whole, but it had an influence on the Constitution of 1790, and portions were enacted as separate statutes.
In December 1799 Burke was elected chancellor of the court of equity.
Later in life he lived in comfortable quarters in Charleston until his death at age 58 .
Aedanus Burke was elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the First Congress in 1789, serving until 1791. He declined to be a candidate for reelection and again served as a Judge of the State Circuit Court and as a chancellor of the courts of equity. He did not return to Congress, and devoted the rest of his life to his judicial duties. Burke was first and foremost the judge, his solid legal learning and careful reasoning determining his conduct in all important matters.
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He was, next, the ardent Democrat.
Burke declared that the eligibility of the President to succeed himself was dangerous to the liberties of the people, and moved an amendment to prohibit it. He was elected to the First Congress and there continued his fight for the qualification of the general powers of the government, to keep, he said, "our liberties from being fooled away. "
He opposed the excise tax and the establishment of the United States Bank. But the assumption of state debts he vigorously urged, as a measure of justice, both because the debts were incurred in the common cause, and because South Carolina, deprived by the Constitution of her import duties, would become bankrupt without it. Likewise he spoke and voted with the majority on paying the Continental obligations at par, basing his argument on public policy. He was a firm proponent of slavery.
Neither principle nor policy obscured his courage, his Irish wit, or his irascible temper.
He never married.
