Commentaries on the Constitution of the United StatesThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 1408 oldal Reprint of the second edition, with additions by his son, W.W. Story [1819-1895]. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1851. Two volumes. xxxiii, 734; 632 pp. First published in 1833, this work is generally considered to be the most important work written on the American Constitution before the Civil War, and it remains an important work. Dedicated to John Marshall, it presents a strongly Nationalist interpretation. It is divided into three books. Book I contains a history of the colonies and discussion of their charters. Book II discusses the Continental Congress and analyzes the fl aws that crippled the Articles of Confederation. Book III begins with a history of the Constitution and its ratification. This is followed by a brilliant line-by-line exposition of each of its articles and amendments. Comparing it to The Federalist, James Kent said that Story's work was "written in the same free and liberal spirit, with equal exactness and soundness of doctrine, and with great beauty and eloquence of composition.... Whoever seeks...a complete history and exposition of this branch of our jurisprudence, will have recourse to [this] work, which is written with great candor, and characterized by extended research, and a careful examination of the vital principles upon which our government reposes." cited in Marvin, Legal Bibliography 669-670. Apart from James Kent, no man has had greater influence on the development of American law than Joseph Story [1779-1845]. He was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard, where he played a key role in the growth of the school and the establishment of its national eminence. His many books have been cited extensively to this day. An associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1812 to 1845, and the youngest person ever to serve on the Court, he was the author of several landmark decisions, such as Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and Prigg v. Pennsylvania. |
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... Confederation 218-229 CHAPTER III . Analysis of the Articles of the Confederation . 229-243 CHAPTER IV . Decline and Fall of the Confederation 243-272 BOOK III . THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . CHAPTER I. Origin and Adoption of ...
... confederation ; of the sovereign powers antecedently exercised by the continental congress ; of the powers delegated by the confederation to the general government ; of the causes of the decline and fall of the confederation ; and ...
... confederation , of which we shall have occasion to speak more hereafter , were not prepared or adopted by congress until November , 1777 ; 2 they were not signed or ratified by any of the states until July , 1778 ; and they were not ...
... confederation on the 1st of March , 1781. It appears to me , that the powers of congress during that whole period were derived from the people they represented , expressly given through the medium of their state conventions or state ...
... confederation , few questions were judicially discussed during the revolutionary contest ; for men had not leisure ... confederation.1 The result of that examination was , as the opinions already cited indicate , that congress , before ...