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- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
- Publisher:
- Annual Register, London, 1798.
- Description:
- A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
- Condition:
- Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
- Book No.:
- W-80391
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Cooley, Thomas M.
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1868.
- Description:
- First edition of Cooley's magnum opus, a work admired by Holmes and used by him in his undergraduate course on constitutional law at Harvard, described by his principal biographer as "the most fecund source of laissez faire constitutional principles"
- Condition:
- Modern sheep, crimson morocco label, gilt, some markings and an occasional notation, else a very good copy; with an eight page Little Brown catalogue
- Book No.:
- W-75017
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- Debates in the Congress of the United States on the Bill for Repealing the Law "For the More Convenient Organization of the Courts of the United States;" During the First Session of the Seventh Congress [etc.]. Cohen 1203
- Publisher:
- Printed by Whiting, Leavenworth and Whiting, Albany, 1802.
- Description:
- The record of "[t]he profound constitutional questions embedded" in the debates resulting in the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, restoring that of 1789, ultimately leading to Marbury v Madison and the role of judicial review in this country
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, rebacked, considerable foxing and browning, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77407
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Wolfson, Richard F.
- Title:
- Book Review of 'Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes' by Felix Frankfurter
- Publisher:
- Indiana Law Journal, Volume 23, Indianapolis, 1948.
- Description:
- A seemingly unrecorded separate printing of the review of Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture delivered in 1947, in whose preparation "I shall use the light that is shed by the decisions of Holmes, Brandeis and Cardozo on statutory construction"
- Condition:
- Original stapled self wraps, pages 381-385, some uneven browning, else quite sound, now carefully preserved in a cloth folding case; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-80422
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Important Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Steam-Boat Case, Delivered by chief justice Marshall, March 2, 1824. Gibbons v. Ogden [the March 27, 1824 issue, pp. 49-64 (complete) (Marshall's opinion taking up most of the issue)]
- Publisher:
- Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, 1824.
- Description:
- Marshall's famed opinion establishing freedom of interstate commerce throughout this country, an "opinion which has done more to knit the American people into an indivisible Nation than any other one force in our history, excepting only war"
- Condition:
- Original printed self wraps, disbound, light browning, else a good sound copy now protected in a modern cloth folding case; Vol. XXVI Whole No. 654
- Book No.:
- W-80426
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
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