FAMILIAR

EXPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

CONTAINING

A BRIEF COMMENTARY

ON EVERY CLAUSE, EXPLAINING THE TRUE NATURE, REASONS, AND OBJECTS TOIEREOF; DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES

AND GENERAL READERS.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING IMPORTANT PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF

THE 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, and containing, within itself, a provision for its own amendment, has a just cluinn 1:3 your confidence and respect.” - President Washington's Farewell Address to !! People of the United States.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARR.

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HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840 by

MARSH, CAPEN, LYON, AND WEBB,

To the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusette.