Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States information
Three-volume work by Joseph Story first published in 1833
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
The title page of volume I of the first edition of Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833)[1]
Author
Joseph Story
Language
English
Subject
Constitutional law
Published
1833 (Hilliard, Gray, and Company; Brown, Shattuck and Co.)
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (hardback) (3 volumes)
OCLC
3826953
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States is a three-volume treatise written by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Joseph Story and published in 1833. In these Commentaries, Story defends the power of the national government and economic liberty. "My object will be," Story wrote, "sufficiently attained, if I shall have succeeded in bringing before the reader the true view of its powers, maintained by its founders and friends, and confirmed and illustrated by the actual practice of the government."[2]
^Joseph Story (1833), 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. By Joseph Story, LL.D. Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. In Three Volumes, Boston; Cambridge, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, and Company; Brown, Shattuck, and Co., OCLC 3826953.
^Story, Joseph (1874), Cooley, Thomas (ed.), Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, vol. I (4th ed.), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, p. viii.
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