1862 SLAVERY & TRIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION. Henry Ward Beecher's Copy of Important Civil War Text. John Wesley Very crisp with biographical note

Very crisp with biographical note at head and binding / tape residue at right edge

and where should we live without tearing in pieces

Here is a rare one

are mostly returned men from the front

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1862 SLAVERY & TRIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION. Henry Ward Beecher's Copy of Important Civil War Text. John Wesley Very crisp with biographical noteA very important copy of a landmark work in the history of Constitutional Law. Lawyer, Sidney George Fisher 1862 work, presented here, The Trial of the Constitution, was the first work to interpret the U. S. Constitution "in light of the prevailing European tradition of centralized, responsible government", and it "deserves a permanent place among commentaries on American government . . . " [W. H. Ryker, 1954]. Historian and political scientist