Author: Carl Evans Boyd

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9780266366454

Excerpt from Cases on American Constitutional Law In making this collection of cases, it was not my purpose to at tempt to rival the notable collection of Professor Thayer. I have had the more modest design of bringing together within the com pass of a single volume a sufficient number of the leading decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on constitutional law to form the basis of a university course in that subject. The se-called case system of study is applied to almost all branches of the law, but its application to constitutional law has been retarded by the obvious impracticability of referring a class to the original reports and by the want of a suitable case book of moderate size. It is to meet sncli requirements that this collection has been formed. A work of this kind is necessarily a compromise between the de sirable and the attainable. The exigencies of space have compelled me to exclude numerous instructive decisions which many persons may expect to find and which I would have been glad to print. For the further economy of space, arguments have been omitted and the notes are few. It seemed that the pages required for these features could be more profitably devoted to decisions which must otherwise be excluded. 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.