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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... latter was maintained by the crown and its legal advisers . Struggles took place from time to time on this subject in some of the provincial assemblies ; and declarations of rights were there drawn up , and rejected by the crown as an ...
... latter assumed , and supported somewhat of the preeminence , which belonged to ba- ronial possessions in the parent country . Virginia was so tenacious of entails , that she would not even endure the barring of them by the common means ...
... latter were the objections taken , and alterations proposed in respect to the apportionment of taxes , and of the quota of public forces to be raised among the states , by Massachusetts , Connecticut , New - Jersey , and Pennsylvania ...
... latter would as naturally desire , that the powers of the general government should have a real , and not merely a suspended vitality ; that it should act , and move , and guide , and not merely totter under its own weight , or sink ...