User:Asturias444

As a product of the 19th century (my parents were born in 1882 and 1898 respectively) I have devoted my adult life to research and investigation in just about every field. I have been using Wikipedia for many years as the source of information. Although I am 85 years old, I am still a student, if not a scholar. I was born in Philadelphia in 1926 and attended two excellent schools there, Oak Lane Country Day School and Germantown Friends School, before entering Harvard College where I received my A.B. magna cum laude in 1948 [Class of 1947]. My real Education, however, did not begin until I left The Academic World and began my own personal Experiment in International Living, mostly in Italy between October 1949 and June 1950. In early 1951 I first visited Chile where I settled once and for all two years later. In addition to my five Chilean-born children I have 24 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. I am the author of THE EXERCISE OF JUDICIAL POWER [published by Vantage Press, NYC, in 1973], a study based on the original Supreme Court Decisions, up until the Civil War, of the exercise of power by the Federal Judiciary, including a definitive coverage of how the Federal Courts extended their role in cases involving Admiralty Jurisdiction at the expense of the State Courts. I have written several novels which have not yet been published. David Marshall Billikopf, saranac5@terra.cl