FAMILIAR EXPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: CONTAINING A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON EVERY CLAUSE, EXPLAINING THE TRUE NATURE, REASONS, AND OBJECT TOIEREOF; DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND GENERAL READERS. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING IMPORTANT PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF TIE CONSTITUTION. BY JOSEPH STORY, LL. D. DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY: “ This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawel, dilopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting security with energy, un containing, within itself, a provision for its own amendment, has a just clain 1:3 your confidence and respect." - President Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARR. KD 17353 HARVARD Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840 by Marsh, CAPEN, LYON, AND WEBB, Io the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, THIS WORK, DESIGNED TO AID THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION, AND TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES BY HER INGENUOUS YOUTII, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY ONE WHO GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES, THAT HER TERRITORY IS TIE LAND OF HIS BIRTH, AND THE HIOME OF HIS CIIOICE, THE AUTILOR, Cambridge, January 1, 1840. |