View of the Constitution of the United States: With Selected Writings

by St. George Tucker

Overview

St. George Tucker’s View of the Constitution, published in 1803, was the first extended, systematic commentary on the United States Constitution after its ratification. Generations learned their Blackstone and their understanding of the Constitution through Tucker.

Clyde N. Wilson is Professor of History and editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun at the University of South Carolina.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865972018
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/01/1999
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword, vii
Note on the Text, xix
Note on Tucker’s Numbering of the Amendments, xxi On the Study of Law, 1
On Sovereignty and Legislature, 18
Of the Several Forms of Government, 21
View of the Constitution of the United States, 91
Of the Unwritten, or Common Law of England; And Its Introduction into, and Authority Within the United American States, 313
Of the Right of Conscience; And of the Freedom of Speech and of the Press, 371
Of the Cognizance of Crimes and Misdemeanours, 395
On the State of Slavery in Virginia, 402 Index, 447