View of the Constitution of the United States: With Selected Writings
As professor of law at the College of William and Mary, St. George Tucker in 1803 published View of the Constitution—the first extended, systematic commentary on the United States Constitution after its ratification and later its amendment by the Bill of Rights. View was originally part of Tucker's "Americanized" or "republicanized" edition of the multivolume Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone. Generations of American law students, lawyers, judges, and statesmen...
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Foreword, vii Note on the Text, xix Note on Tucker’s Numbering of the Amendments, xxi On the Study of Law, 1\ On Sovereignty and Legislature, 18\ Of the Several Forms of Government, 21\ View of the Constitution of the United States, 91\ Of the Unwritten, or Common Law of England; And Its Introduction into, and Authority Within the United American States, 313\ Of the Right of Conscience; And of the Freedom of Speech and of the Press, 371\ Of the Cognizance of Crimes and Misdemeanours, 395\ On the State of Slavery in Virginia, 402 Index, 447
