OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE Ünited States of America. BY WILLIAM RAWLE. C PHILADELPHIA: H. C. CAREY & I. LEA-CHESNUT STREET. EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-ninth day of January, in the forty-ninth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1825, WILLIAM RAWLE, Esquire, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "A View of the Constitution of the United States of America. By Wil"liam Rawle." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “ An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."-And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. IF the following work shall prove useful, as an elementary treatise to the American student, the author will be gratified. If foreigners are enabled, by the perusal of it, to obtain a general idea of the merits of the constitution, his satisfaction will be increased. To the American public in general, its value may chiefly consist in the exhibition of those judicial decisions, which have settled the construction of some points that have been the subjects of controversy. ERRATA. Page 12, Note, dele "Rhode Island.” 34, in some copies at the penultimate line, dele" or falling into something worse." This error of a copyist was discovered after part of the impression had been struck off. 130, line 28, for "people," read "union." 203, line 14, the sense is materially affected by the misplacing of a comma. The comma should be removed from the word "deliberations," to the word "counsel." |