Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on Constitutional Law, Vol. 4: Some Provisions Promoting Nationalism
The wide interest in Constitutional Law may cause this volume to reach some readers unacquainted with the case system of study. Hence it seems necessary to explain that this collection of cases is intended not to accompany a treatise but to serve as the basis for independent work. Before each class exercise the student is expected to master fifteen or twenty pages, fitting him -self to state how the problems arose and to express clearly the doctrines necessarily involved in the decisions. There are several methods of studying cases effectively. One successful method is to mark in distinctive ways the essential facts of each case, the passages indicating the points upon which the decision turned, and other passages worthy of comment, and then to place at the beginning of the case a short syllabus, giving in a sentence or two the reader's own phrasing of the ratio decidendi. Thus before work in the classroom the student puts much of himself into the book. The margins permit making notes of classroom discussion. Besides, if there be time and inclination for further study, by inserting an occasional sheet of interleaving paper the volume may be enriched with matter derived from cases cited in the foot notes or discovered by the student himself. There is no reason why use should not be made of digests, treatises, and other aids to investigation; and with or Without those collateral aids the volume may be made an adequate record of the student's work and the basis for that short treatise which many a student pre pares for himself. It is no waste to annotate a volume in the way described. Thus grew Coke's First Institute, known even to laymen as Coke upon Littleton; and the permanent record of either a student's or a lawyer's work in Constitutional Law may well take the form of annotations upon decisions. 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.
