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SOURCES OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE
UNITED STATES
CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO COLONIAL
AND ENGLISH HISTORY.
BY
C. ELLIS STEVENS, LL.D., D.C.L., F.S.A. (Edin.).
12mo. Cloth. $2.00.
PRESS COMMENTS.
"The volume is one which merits the most careful attention of the students of
our institutions, since it presents more fully and proves more conclusively than
does any other work the theory that our constitution was not, as Mr. Gladstone
said,' a most wonderful work struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose
of man', but is rather an embodiment in a logical form of institutions which had
been the growth of centuries. . . . One of the most interesting chapters of Mr.
Stevens' volume is that in which he treats of the judiciary. It has been generally
admitted that the model of our state courts is English, but so distinguished an
authority as Sir Henry Maine says that there is no exact precedent for our supreme
court either in the ancient or modern world. Mr. Stevens, however, shows as we
take it most conclusively that in no particular does our constitution more conform
to English models than in this very matter of the supreme court, and that in every
respect it rests upon colonial and English precedents."—Boston Daily Advertiser.
"There are few, even among educated Americans, who will not find this volume
a means of profitable thought and suggestion. Mr. Stevens is a profound student,
and his opinions are entitled to respectful attention. His notes are selected from
a wide range of literature and are extremely helpful in the elucidation of difficult
points."—The Beacon.
"Among the many useful purposes which Dr. Stevens' essay is likely to subserve
is that of providing a clear and succinct reply to the extreme theory set forth in
Mr. Douglas Campbels 'The Puritan in Holland, England, and America,' in
which the Dutch origins of our organic law were persistently set forth to the exclusion
of other cogent considerations. Dr. Stevens has aimed to trace Teutonic
rather than English sources, but his work covers so large a field—and one so different
from that occupied by previous investigators—that he gains the advantage
of a point of view which is inclusive, and, while presenting his theories with force
and tact, escapes the narrowness of statement which is apt to characterize the
work of a special pleader."—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
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