IN WHICH THE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AS TO THE MAKING OF
THE ENTIRELY NEW PLAN OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EM-
BODIED IN THE EXISTING CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES IS, FOR THE FIRST TIME, SET FORTH AS A
COMPLETE AND CONSISTENT WHOLE
BY HANNIS TAYLOR
HON. LL.D. Of the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin
Formerly Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Spain; author of “The
Origin and Growth of the English Constitution"; "International Public
Law"; "Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Supreme Court of
the United States"; "The Science of Jurisprudence"
(presented to the Institute of France,
March 13, 1909)
"Nec temporis unius, nec hominis esse constitutionem Reipublicæ."
"And thus it comes to pass that Magna Carta, the Acts of the Long
Parliament, the Declaration of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and
the Constitution of 1787 constitute the record of an evolution.”. - BRANTLY.
"History is studied from documents. Documents are the traces which have
been left by the thoughts and actions of men of former times.... There is no
substitute for documents: no documents, no history."- CH.-V. LANGLOIS.
"Under every shell there was an animal, and behind every document
there was a man." TAINE.
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