A Selection Of Cases On Constitutional Law

Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on Constitutional Law This collection of cases may therefore be used as the sole stu dents' book em the subject, the teacher giving such historical matter as to the origin of constitutional principles and as to the adeption of the constitutional system as he deems necessary; or it may be used to supplement Cooley's Principles and enable the student to read a series of cases illustrative of the text of that work, and thus do more effectively the ease reading which any teacher, using the text-book, would like to have his students do in connection with the study of the text. To make the use of this book as an independent work convenient and satisfactory, the Federal Constitution has been reprinted, and a table of contents, 3. Table of cases, and a full index have been given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Selection of Cases on Constitutional Law This collection is to be contained in one volume. It will be divided into four books, which may be obtained separately. Book I. deals with introductory topics, beginning with the distinction between legislative, executive, and judicial powers, then passing to federal government, in other words, the general relation of State and Nation, and concluding with what may be called imperial government, or problems incident to the exercise by the Nation of governmental functions in the District of Columbia, the territories, and the insular possessions. Book II. deals with miscellaneous topics, and especially with some of the express limitations in the Constitution of the United States, including the clauses as to ex post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Book III. deals with due process of law and kindred topics. Book IV. deals principally with commerce. The literature is so vast that this collection presents only the famous cases and such of the others as may serve the ordinary purposes of the classroom. The reader with scholarly tastes is expected to make large use of the celebrated collection which for twenty years formed the basis of the instruction at tliis Law School - Thayer's Cases on Constitutional Law. In editing the cases, new statements have usually been prepared, and, save as otherwise indicated, arguments of counsel have been omitted. Omissions in opinions have been indicated by dots. In the first chapter of Book I. an attempt has been made to reproduce punctuation and capitalization exactly, to the end that the reader may ascertain what importance attaches to changes in capitalizing Constitution, Congress, and other words. The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States have been placed at the beginning, both in order to encourage the student to ascertain as soon as possible whether the Constitution was a revision of the earlier document, and also in order to aid him to form the habit of beginning every constitutional investigation by examining the words, the context, and the origin of the pertinent provision in the Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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