Documents Of The Constitution Of England And America From Magna Charta To The Federal Constitution Of 1789 Compiled And Edited With Notes By Francis Bowen

Author : Francis Bowen
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ISBN 13 : 9781331151135
Total Pages : 154 pages
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Download or read book Documents of the Constitution of England and America written by Francis Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Documents of the Constitution of England and America: From Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789 While teaching the elements of Constitutional History and Law to successive classes in college, I have felt the want of a little manual, which should present in a form convenient for reference, the text, not only of our own national Constitution, but of those state documents, whether pertaining directly to the history of England or of America, upon which some of the most important features of our Constitution are based, and from which, both in the spirit and the letter, it may be said to derive its parentage. The word Constitution, in its largest sense, properly signifies the aggregate of those fundamental laws, institutions, and usages, which make up the whole polity of a state. It is too extensive, therefore, to be accurately described and defined in a single written instrument; a great portion of it is unwritten, forming a body of consuetudinary law, which is equally valid with those other portions that have been specially recognized and enacted, or re-enacted rather, by the supreme legislature. What is usually termed the Constitution in this country, whether it be the Federal Constitution of the whole Union, or the separate Constitution of each State, is but a part, and a small part, of the fundamental law under which we live. Still more; these two specific constitutions are not, to any great extent, original and fresh enactments, first devised and first made binding when these were put together and formally accepted by the people about three quarters of a century ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.