View of the Constitution of the United States : with selected writings / St. George Tucker ; foreword by Clyde N. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827.

Contributor:

Wilson, Clyde N. (Clyde Norman), 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Common law--United States.

Common law.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Slavery--Virginia.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 learned their Blackstone--and also their understanding of the Constitution--through Tucker. As Clyde N. Wilson notes, "Tucker is the exponent of Jeffersonian republicanism . . . in contrast to the commercial republicanism of New England that has since the Civil War been taken to be the only true form of American philosophy." In addition to the entirety of View, the Liberty Fund volume includes seven other essays from Tucker's renowned edition of Blackstone. These include "On the Study of Law," "Of the Unwritten, or Common Law of England," and "Of the Several Forms of Government."St. George Tucker (1752-1827) was an officer in the American Revolutionary Army, a Professor of Law, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, judge of the Federal District Court for Virginia by appointment of President James Madison, progenitor of a long line of jurists and scholars, and stepfather of John Randolph of Roanoke.Clyde N. Wilson is Professor of History and Editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun at the University of South Carolina.

Contents:

""St. George Tucker, View of th econstitution of the United States ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents, p. v ""; ""Foreword, p. vii ""; ""Note on the Text, p. xix ""; ""Note on Tucker's Numbering of the Amendments, p. xxi ""; ""View of the Constitution of the United States ""; ""On the Study of Law, p. 1 ""; ""On Sovereignty and Legislature, p. 18 ""; ""Of the Several Forms of Government, p. 21 ""; ""View of the Constitution of the United States, p. 91 ""; ""Of the Unwritten, or Common Law of England, p. 313 ""; ""Of the Right of Conscience

And of the Freedom of Speech and of the Press, p. 371 """"Of the Cognizance of Crimes and Misdemeanours, p. 395 ""; ""On the State of Slavery in Virginia, p. 402 ""; ""Index, p. 447 ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61487-869-2

OCLC:

824698925