A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999 - 372 Seiten Story, Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School, Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution. New York: Harper Brothers: 1865. 372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-50811. ISBN 1-886363-71-4. Hardcover. * Reprint of the 1865 edition. An important treatise on the Constitution of the United States by an early master of that document. Designed to follow the order of his well-known Commentaries on the Constitution, this work is written in language geared to the student or layman, nevertheless showing great breadth and profundity in his explications. |
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... States , were New Hampshire , Massachu- setts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York ... nations . The § 3. At the time of the discovery of America , towards the ... foreign nation whatso ever ; and , as far as they have possessed 12 ...
... States , were New Hampshire , Massachu- setts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York ... nations . The § 3. At the time of the discovery of America , towards the ... foreign nation whatso ever ; and , as far as they have possessed 12 ...
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... foreign nations ; and they followed the fate and fortunes of the parent country in peace and in war . Still the colonists were not wholly alien to each other . On the contrary , they were fellow subjects , and , for many purposes , one ...
... foreign nations ; and they followed the fate and fortunes of the parent country in peace and in war . Still the colonists were not wholly alien to each other . On the contrary , they were fellow subjects , and , for many purposes , one ...
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... States , and continued by the successive appointments of the State legislatures , con- stituted , in fact , the National ... foreign nations , to contract public debts , and to do all other sovereign acts essential to the safety of the ...
... States , and continued by the successive appointments of the State legislatures , con- stituted , in fact , the National ... foreign nations , to contract public debts , and to do all other sovereign acts essential to the safety of the ...
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... States , to the National Government , for national purposes . This latter subject was one of a perpetually recurring and ... States , while colonies , had been under the controlling authority of a foreign sovereignty , whose restrictive ...
... States , to the National Government , for national purposes . This latter subject was one of a perpetually recurring and ... States , while colonies , had been under the controlling authority of a foreign sovereignty , whose restrictive ...
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... States . The consequence was , that great delays took place in collecting ... foreign countries , it is far from being certain , that this dilatory scheme ... nations did not fail to avail them- selves of all the advantages accruing to ...
... States . The consequence was , that great delays took place in collecting ... foreign countries , it is far from being certain , that this dilatory scheme ... nations did not fail to avail them- selves of all the advantages accruing to ...
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Distribution of Powers The Legislative Depart | 46 |
CHAPTER XII | 89 |
CHAPTER XVII | 114 |
General Power to make Necessary and Proper | 131 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 228 |
Privileges of Citizens Fugitive Criminals | 242 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 251 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 267 |
DECLARATION of Independence | 275 |
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES | 289 |
WASHINGTONS FAREWELL ADDRESS | 306 |
DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE UNI | 324 |
Admission of New States Government of Territo | 137 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 146 |
CHAPTER XXX | 179 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 186 |
GLOSSARY | 339 |
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