Around the time of its statehood in 1845, Florida was largely a wet and wild swampland that was very sparsely populated. By way of illustration, the 1840 census registered only 446 people in all of Dade County.1 In barest summary, it was a dangerous, lawless, and violent place by most contemporary accounts. Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes,

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Quotation (Prolatio) “The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.” — Hon. Sandra Day O’Connor, Assoc. J., SCOTUS (1981-2006) Preface (Praefatio) Since the nascent days of civilization, man