A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union
Thomas M. Cooley
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Description
Reprint of the fifth edition, the final authorial edition of Cooley's most important work. It went through six editions by 1890 and was cited more often that any other legal text in the late nineteenth century. This classic legal commentary on the Constitution examines the construction of state constitutions and the enactment of laws and "ranks with Story among the foremost commentators on the Constitution." Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 288. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1883.
Product Details
| Publisher | Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
| Publish Date | November 10, 2017 |
| Pages | 976 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781886363533 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 2.3 inches | 3.5 pounds |
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Reviews
"The most influential work ever published on American Constitutional law." --Edward Corwin, Constitutional Revolution 87
"Published as the Fourteenth Amendment was being ratified, the treatise, especially Cooley's chapter on the protection of property by the "due process" clause of state constitutions, gained immediate attention because of its substantive, rather than mere procedural, definition of due process. For Cooley, due process meant that the powers of government must be exercised in accord with the 'settled maxims' of the common law, especially its safeguards for the protection of individual rights. Cooley's common-law constitutionalism also protected individual liberty from arbitrary regulations that restricted rights 'in a manner before unknown to the law.' 'Established principles, ' not mere procedure, determined whether a legislative or administrative act was due process." --American National Biography V: 415
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