THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLASS BO O K: BEING A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF THE HIGHER CLASSES IN COMMON SCHOOLS. BY JOSEPH STORY, LL. D. Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. 'The unity of Government, which constitutes you one People, is also dear to you. It is BOSTON: HILLIARD, GRAY & COMPANY. Checked May 1913 THE NEW YORK 167558 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by JOSEPH STORY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. BOSTON: James B. Dow, Printer, TO THE SCHOOLMASTERS OF THE UNITED STATES WHOSE MERITORIOUS, THOUGH OFTEN ILL-REQUITED LABORS HAVE CONFERRED LASTING BENEFITS P R E F A CЕ. It has been pre THE present work is designed to be read and studied by the higher classes in our Common Schools. pared in compliance with a suggestion made to me, that such a work was a desideratum in the common course of the education of American youth. The deserved success of the excellent Class Books of Mr. William Sullivan, which do so much honor to him as a statesman, a scholar, and a moralist, have encouraged me to hope, that the task thus performed, may not be without some public utility. If it shall tend to awaken in the bosoms of American youth a more warm and devoted attachment to the National Union, and a more deep and firm love of the National Constitution, it will afford me a very sincere gratification, and be an ample compensation for the time, which has necessarily been withdrawn from other pressing avocations, in order to complete it. The plan is the same, which I have adopted in my larger Commentaries. But it became indispensable to write nearly all the work anew, so much was required to give simplicity, and clearness, and brevity to the explanations, that they |