"I have finished reading this great work Commentaries on the
Constitution of the United States, and wish it could be read by every
statesman, and every would-be statesman in the United States. It is a
comprehensive and an accurate commentary on our Constitution, formed in
the spirit of the original text." --Chief Justice John Marshall (1833)
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States Vol. II--with a
Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and
States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, written by Supreme
Court Justice Joseph Story in three volumes, was first published in
1833, of which this edition is a replica. This work is a landmark of
early American jurisprudence and is still is an important source about
the forming of the American republic and about Story's defense of the
power of the national government and economic liberty.