OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES; DESIGNED AS A TEXT BOOK FOR LECTURES, AS A CLASS BOOK FOR ACADEMIES AND COMMON SCHOOLS, AND AS A MANUAL FOR POPULAR USE. BY WILLIAM ALEXANDER DUER, L.L.D. PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN THE CITY PRESENTED THE HON. SOC. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-three, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER DUER, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. ΤΟ JAMES MADISON. To you, Sir, as the surviving member of the august assembly that framed the Constitution, and of that illustrious triumvirate who, in vindicating it from the objections of its first assailants, succeeded in recommending it to the adoption of their country; to you, who, in discharging the highest duties of its administration, proved the stability and excellence of the Constitution, in war as well as in peace, and determined the experiment in favour of republican institutions and the right of self-government; to you, who in your retirement, raised a warning voice against those heresies in the construction of that Constitution which for a moment threatened to impair it; to you, Sir, as alone amongst the earliest and the latest of its defenders,-this brief exposition of the organization and principles of the National Government, intended especially for the instruction of our American youth, is most respectfully, and, in reference to your public services, most properly inscrib ed. |