Commentaries on the Constitution of the United StatesThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 1408 páginas 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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... never been objected to this , or to any other similar grant , that the title as well as possession was in the Indians , when it was made , and that it passed nothing on that account . § 20. " These various patents cannot be considered ...
... never been doubted , that either the United States , or the several States , had a clear title to all the lands within the boundary lines described in the treaty , subject only to the Indian right of occupancy , and that the exclusive ...
... never to have been confirmed by the crown ; and the colonists were never , by any act of the crown , created a body politic and corporate with any legislative powers . They , therefore , remained in legal contemplation a mere voluntary ...
... never been in this country a dependent peasantry . The yeomanry are ab- solute owners of the soil , on which they tread ; and their character has from this circumstance been marked by a more jealous watchful- ness of their rights , and ...
... never ceded to any sovereign power whatever , a right to dispose of either without their consent . “ Resolved , N. C. D. 2. That our ancestors , who first settled these colonies , were , at the time of their emigration from the mother ...