An essential guide to the founding document of the United States, this book provides readers with a clear and concise overview of the Constitution, its history, and its significance. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of constitutional law and legal history, Story offers valuable insights into the meaning and purpose of each clause, and shows readers how the Constitution continues to shape our society and our world today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hardcover reprint of the original 1847 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Story, Joseph. A Familiar Exposition Of The Constitution Of The United States: Containing A Brief Commentary On Every Clause, Explaining The True Nature, Reasons, And Objects Thereof; Designed For The Use Of School Libraries And General Readers. With An Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative Of The Constitution. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Story, Joseph. A Familiar Exposition Of The Constitution Of The United States: Containing A Brief Commentary On Every Clause, Explaining The True Nature, Reasons, And Objects Thereof; Designed For The Use Of School Libraries And General Readers. With An Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative Of The Constitution, . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. Subject: United States Constitutional Law

Excerpt from A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers The present Work is designed, not only for private reading, but as a text book for the highest classes in our Common Schools and Academies. It is also adapted to the use of those, who are more advanced, and have left school, after having passed through the common branches of education. It may also be studied with ad vantage by those, who have arrived at maturer years, but whose pursuits have not allowed them leisure to acquire a thorough knowledge of the Republican Constitution of Government, under which they live. Some of the subjects, which are here treated of, may seem remote from those topics, which ordinarily engage the attention of our youth, and some of them may seem to be of such an abstract political nature, that the full value of them can scarcely be felt, except by persons, who have had some experience of the duties and difficulties of social life. But, I think, that it will be found, upon closer examination, that an objection of this sort can properly apply to very few passages in the Work; and that even those, which fall within the scope of the objection, will furnish sources of reflection, and means of knowledge, which will essentially aid the student in his future progress, and place him, as it were, upon the vantage ground, to master the leading principles of politics, and public policy. 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.