370. Adams, John
A Defence [sic] of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.
Philadelphia: Printed by Budd and Bartram, for William Corbett, 1797
Three volumes. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-067586. ISBN 1-58477-140-2. Cloth. $250.

371. Baldwin, Henry
A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government of the United States, Deduced from the Political History and Condition of the Colonies and States, from 1774 until 1788. And the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Together with Opinions in the Cases Decided at January Term, 1837, Arising on the Restraints on the Powers of the States.
Philadelphia, Printed by J. C. Clark, 1837
v, [1], 197 p. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 00-026728. ISBN 1-58477-098-8. Cloth. $60.

372. Bancroft, George
History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Second Edition.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882
Two volumes. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-23946. ISBN 1-58477-002-3. Cloth. $175.

373. Bauer, Elizabeth Kelley
Commentaries on the Constitution 1790-1860.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1952
400 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-45409. ISBN 1-886363-66-8. Cloth. $95.

374. Beard, Charles
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952
xxi, 330 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-036834. ISBN 1-58477-111-9. Cloth. $80.

375. Beard, Charles A.
The Supreme Court and the Constitution.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912
vii, 127 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-50368. ISBN 1-886363-78-1. Cloth. $45.

376. Bondy, William
Separation of Governmental Powers in History, in Theory, and in the Constitutions.
New York: Columbia College, 1896
vi,[7]-185, [1] pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-44994. ISBN 1-886363-65-X. Cloth. $65.

377. Brown, Everett S.
The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase 1803-1812.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1920
xi, 248 pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-151-8. Cloth. $75.

378. Brown, Everett Somerville
Ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1938
xi, 718 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002072857. ISBN 1-58477-278-6. Cloth. $125.

* Enacted in 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment instituted prohibition. It was repealed in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-First amendment. This book collects all available state records relating to the amendment’s ratification by those state conventions. An invaluable assemblage of source documents that present an accurate history of the ratification of the Twenty-First amendment.

379. Calhoun, John C.
A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States.
Edited by Richard K. Cralle.
Charleston, S.C.: Steam Power-Press of Walker and James, 1851
viii, 406 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-067584. ISBN 1-58477-127-5. Cloth. $95.

380. Chipman, Nathaniel
Principles of Government.
A Treatise on Free Institutions Including the Constitution of the United States.
Burlington: Edward Smith, 1833
viii, 144, 145a-188a, [145]-330 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 99-048863. ISBN 1-58477-046-5. Cloth. $80.

381. Cohn, Morris M.
An Introduction to the Study of the Constitution;
A Study showing the Play of Physical and Social Factors in the Creation of Institutional Law.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1892
xi, 235 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-38730. ISBN 1-58477-032-5. Cloth. $50.

382. Cooley, Thomas M.
The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1880
xxxix, 376 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-056301. ISBN 1-58477-120-8. Cloth. $85.

383. Cooley, Thomas M.
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union. [1st edition].
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1868
xlvii, 720pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-20589. ISBN 1-886363-92-7. Cloth. $95.

384. Cooley, Thomas M.
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union.
Fifth edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1883
lxxxi, 886pp. Reprinted 1998
LCCN 98-12730. ISBN 1-886363-53-6. Cloth. $120.

385. Corwin, Edward
The Doctrine of Judicial Review: Its Legal and Historical Basis and Other Essays.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1914
ix, 178 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-32362. ISBN 1-58477-011-2. Cloth. $60.

386. Curtis, George Ticknor and Joseph Culbertson Clayton
Constitutional History of the United States from their Declaration of Independence to the Close of the Civil War.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889, 1896
Two volumes. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-065554. ISBN 1-58477-129-1. Cloth. $250.

387. Davis, Horace A.
The Judicial Veto.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914
vi, 148 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001045982. ISBN 1-58477-212-3. Cloth. $60.

388. Duer, William Alexander
A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States;
Delivered Annually in Columbia College, New York.
The Second Edition, Revised, Enlarged, and Adapted to Professional as well as General Use.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1856
xxiv, 545 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-16385. ISBN 1-58477-020-1. Cloth. $95.

389. Farnam, Henry W.
Chapters in the History of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860.
Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938
xx, 496 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-049362. ISBN 1-58477-054-6. Cloth. $100.

390. Field, Oliver P.
The Effect of an Unconstitutional Statute.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1935
xi, 355 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001022508. ISBN 1-58477-181-X. Cloth. $80.

391. Fisher, Sydney George
The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States.
Showing That It Is a Development of Progressive History and Not an Isolated Document Struck Off at a Given Time or an Imitation of English or Dutch Forms of Government.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1897
398 pp. Reprinted 1996
LCCN 97-41054. ISBN 1-886363-08-0. Cloth. $65.

392. Flanders, Henry
An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States.
Designed as a Manual of Instruction.
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1860
xii, 311 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-31594. ISBN 1-58477-014-7. Cloth. $60.

393. Ford, Paul Leicester
Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana.
A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Alexander Hamilton.
New York: Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press, 1886
vi, [80] pp. (irregular pagination). Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-285-9. Cloth. $85.
See item 216 in section Legal Bibliography for more information on this title.

394. Ford, Paul Leicester
Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States,
Published During Its Discussion by the People 1787-1788.
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888
viii, 451 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-25089. ISBN 1-886363-95-1. Cloth. $75.

395. Haines, Charles Grove
The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics 1789-1835.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944
xiii, 679 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-207-7. Cloth. $120.

396. Haines, Charles Grove and Foster Sherwood
The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics 1835-1864.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957
x, 533 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-197-6. Cloth. $95.

397. [Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison and John Jay]
The Federalist.
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution,
As Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
New-York: J. and A. M’Lean, 1788
Two volumes. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001037703. ISBN 1-58477-204-2. Cloth. $295.

* Special limited edition facsimile reprint of the very rare first edition containing one original leaf from 1788 first edition bound in, and facsimile reprint of the complete text of the two volume first edition.

398. Harriman, Edward A.
The Constitution at the Cross Roads.
A Study of the Legal Aspects of the League of Nations,
The Permanent Organization of Labor and the Permanent Court of International Justice.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]
xv, 274 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002041363. ISBN 1-58477-314-6. Cloth $75.

* With the adoption of the Constitution, the original states lost their right to settle disputes between themselves by means of war. Harriman enlarges this discussion to the United States’ place in the world and the maintenance of its independence following the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Written in 1925, Harriman offers a thorough, organized treatment of the extent of the legal consequences in which the Constitution of the United States may be affected by the Treaty of Versailles and the United States’ resulting membership in the League of Nations and the Permanent Court of International Justice. He presents his study with this statement: “The Constitution is at the cross roads. In one direction leads the way of national tradition and absolute independence; in the other, the way of surrender of absolute independence of action in some degree, to a federation of the world.” (Preface, v.)

399. Henderson, Gerard Carl
The Position of Foreign Corporations in American Constitutional Law.
A Contribution to the History and Theory of Juristic Persons in Anglo-American Law.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918
xix, 199 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-18233. ISBN 1-886363-89-7. Cloth. $50.

399a. Hurst, James Willard
Law and Social Order in the United States.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977
318 pp. Reprinted 2000
ISBN 1-58477-113-5. Cloth. $85.

400. Lansing, John, Jr.
The Delegate from New York or Proceedings of the Federal Convention of 1787 from the Notes of John Lansing, Jr.
Edited by Joseph Reese Strayer.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939
x, 125 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001050456. ISBN 1-58477-218-2. Cloth. $75.

401. [Madison, James]. Hunt, Gaillard and James Brown Scott
The Debates in The Federal Convention of 1787 Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1920
xcvii, [1], 731 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-51911. ISBN 1-886363-77-3. Cloth. $110.

402. [Madison, James]
Journal of the Constitutional Convention Kept by James Madison.
Special Edition. Edited by E.H. Scott.
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1898
805 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002024327. ISBN 1-58477-256-5
Cloth. $110.
See item 315 in section Legislation & Legal Codes for more information on this title.

403. Marshall, John
The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall.
Edited, with an introductory essay by Joseph P. Cotton, Jr.
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1905
Two volumes. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 99-048862. ISBN 1-58477-050-3. Cloth. $175.

404. Mathews, John
Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1909
x, 11-126 pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-176-3. Cloth. $60.

404a. McLaughlin, Andrew C.
The Courts, The Constitution and Parties.
Studies in Constitutional History and Politics.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1912
vii, 299 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-058812. ISBN 1-58477-155-0. Cloth. $95.

404b. McLaughlin, Andrew C.
The Foundations of American Constitutionalism.
New York: The New York University Press, 1932
vii, 176 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-227-1. Cloth. $65.

405. Moore, Blaine Free
The Supreme Court and Unconstitutional Legislation.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1913
158 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-099-6. Cloth. $60.

406. Poore, Ben[jamin] Perley
The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Organic Laws of the United States. Second edition.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878
Folio (7" x 10"). Two volumes. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-128-3. Cloth. $395.

407. Powell, Edward Payson
Nullification and Secession in the United States.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1897
xi, 461 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-067013. ISBN 1-58477-132-1. Cloth. $95.

408. Powell, Thomas Reed
Vagaries and Varieties in Constitutional Interpretation.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1956
xv, 229 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-210-7. Cloth. $70.

409. Rawle, William
A View of the Constitution of the United States of America. Second Edition.
Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1829
viii, 349 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002044387. ISBN 1-58477-331-6. Cloth. $75.

* This treatise is one of the earliest works on the subject of the United States Constitution, and one of the most important. Rawle presents the view that states have a legal right to secede from the union. Cohen observes that the popularity of this text, which was used at West Point and other schools throughout the country, “is generally considered to have influenced the leaders and supporters of the Confederacy, although in fact Rawle opposed secession.” Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2893. Rawle [1759-1836] was a pillar of Pennsylvania’s legal establishment and a highly regarded attorney and educator.

410. Schofield, Henry
Essays on Constitutional Law and Equity and Other Subjects.
Boston: The Chipman Law Publishing Company, 1921
Two volumes. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001043982. ISBN 1-58477-223-9. Cloth. $195.

411. Scott, James Brown
James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1918
xviii, 149pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-164-X. Cloth. $65.

412. Story, Joseph
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Third edition.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1858
Two volumes. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-193-3. Cloth. $250.

413. Story, Joseph
A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States.
Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School, Libraries and General Readers.
With an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution.
New York: Harper & Brothers: 1865
372 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-50811. ISBN 1-886363-71-4. Cloth. $75.

414. Taylor, John, of Caroline
New Views of the Constitution of the United States.
Washington City: Printed for the Author, 1823
[4], 316pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-079-1. Cloth. $70.

415. Tiedeman, Christopher G.
A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Power in the United States
Considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint.
St. Louis: The F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1886
lxv, 662 pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-122-4. Cloth. $110.

416. Tucker, Henry St. George
Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia.
Comprising the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered to the Winchester Law School.
With an Introduction by David Cobin and Paul Finkelman.
Richmond: Shepherd and Colin, 1846
Two volumes. Reprinted 1998
LCCN 97-10313. ISBN 1-886363-26-9. Cloth. $185.

417. Tucker, Henry St. George
Limitations on the Treaty-Making Power Under the Constitution of the United States.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915
xxi, 444 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-31589. ISBN 1-58477-015-5. Cloth. $75.

418. Tucker, Henry St. George
Woman’s Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916
x, 204 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002044382. ISBN 1-58477-342-1
Cloth. $65.
See item 475 in section Women and the Law for more information on this title.

419. Tucker, St. George
Blackstone’s Commentaries. With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Five Volumes, with an Appendix to Each volume, Containing Short Tracts upon Such Subjects As Appeared Necessary to Form a Connected View of the Laws of Virginia As a Member of the Federal Union.
Philadelphia: William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1803
Five volumes. Reprinted 1996
With a New Critical Introduction by Paul Finkelman and David Cobin
LCCN 96-12566. ISBN 1-886363-15-3. Cloth. $450.

420. Twiss, Benjamin R.
Lawyers and the Constitution. How Laissez Faire Came to the Supreme Court.
With a foreword by Edward S. Corwin.
Princeton University Press, [1942]
xii, 271 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-067114. ISBN 1-58477-138-0. Cloth. $75.

421. Vile, John, editor
Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1787-2001.
Three volumes . Published 2003
 LCCN 2002040563. ISBN 1-58477-225-5. Cloth. $450.

* Since 1787, only twenty-seven amendments have been proposed by two-thirds majorities in Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. During this same time, members of Congress have introduced more than eleven and a half thousand proposals, and states have filed close to four hundred additional petitions for constitutional conventions to propose amendments. These three volumes, edited and introduced by John R. Vile, collect and update compilations of lists of proposed amendments and convention petitions that have been scattered about in a variety of governmental reports. They also reprint classic studies by Herman Ames and Michael Musmanno that analyzed amending proposals introduced during the nation’s early years. The work includes texts of basic constitutional documents like the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, and the Confederate Constitution, as well as a comprehensive index of all amendments proposed through 2001.

422. Whiting, William
War Powers under the Constitution of the United States. Military Arrests, Reconstruction & Military Government. Also, Now First Published, War Claims of Aliens with Notes on the Acts of the Executives & Legislative Departments During Our Civil War & a Collection of Cases Decided in the National Courts. 1864.
Tenth edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1864
xvii, 342 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 99-049360. ISBN 1-58477-055-4. Cloth. $80.

423. Willoughby, Westel W.
The Supreme Court of the United States.
Its History and Influence in our Constitutional System.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1890
124 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 00-068896. ISBN 1-58477-147-X. Cloth. $60.

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