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FAMILIAR

EXPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

CONTAINING

A BRIEF COMMENTARY

ON EVERY CLAUSE, EXPLAINING THE TRUE NATURE, REASONS, AND OBJECTI
THEREOF; 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 unawed,
adopted 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, hes a just claim t
your confidence and respect." President Washington's Farewell Addrew to the
People of the United States.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS

FRANKLIN SQUAP

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

MARSH, CAPEN, LYON, AND WEEB

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

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