Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution - Hardcover

Story, Joseph; Cooley, Thomas M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584778784 ISBN 13: 9781584778783

Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Reprint of the important fourth edition edited by Thomas M. Cooley. This was the most extensive and widely discussed study of the Constitution written during the antebellum period. Divided into three books, it offers a strongly nationalist interpretation of the Federal constitution. Book I contains a history of the colonies and a discussion of their charters. Book II discusses the Continental Congress and analyzes the f laws 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. Published in 1873, Cooley's edition updated Story's text to include discussion of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, as well as other changes introduced during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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About the Author

 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 a played a key role in the growth of the school and the establishment of its national eminence, and an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, where he was the author of several landmark decisions, such as Martin v. Hunter's Lessee. His many books have been cited extensively, and he remains an authority today.

Thomas M. Cooley [1824-1898] was perhaps the most significant American jurist of the later nineteenth century. A deeply influential justice, later chief justice, of the Michigan Supreme Court, he also played a leading role in the establishment of the University of Michigan Law School and was a charter member, and first chairman, of the Interstate Commerce Commission. His 1868 Treatise on Constitutional Limitations was the most important study of the United States Constitution published after Story's Commentaries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584778784
• ISBN 13: 9781584778783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1521