(LAW) Story Joseph Commentaries on the Constitution of the U

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(LAW.) Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. 3 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/4 morocco; small ink stain on fore-edge of first volume, minor foxing. Boston and Cambridge, 1833

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first edition. The crowning achievement of an important legal scholar and longtime Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. "Influential and provided a model for later treatises on the Constitution. . . . Story aimed to preserve the doctrinal purity of the Marshall Court"--Oxford Companion to American Law, page 148. Howes S1047; Sabin 92291.