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Excerpt from Synopsis of Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, Before the School of Law of Cornell University
Whole fields of Constitutional law developed since Marshall and Taney, Story and Kent. Remark of Mr. Bagehot on difficulty in sketching a living Constitution; difficulty being that the object is in contant change; this remark, originally applied to the._ English Constitution, true to a large extent of our own written Constitution. These lectures permit only brief allusions to general topics connected with Constitutional law. Singular inaccuracy of Gladstone's dictum that the American Constitution was struck 011' at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. 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.
