contented myself with a mere transcript from the judgments of the court. It may readily be understood that this course has been adopted from a solicitude not to go incidentally beyond the line pointed out by the authorities. In dismissing the work, I cannot but solicit the indulgence of the public for its omissions and deficiencies. With more copious materials, it might have been made more exact, as well as more satisfactory. With more leisure and more learning, it might have been wrought up more in the spirit of political philosophy. Such as it is, it may not be wholly useless as a means of stimulating abler minds to a more thorough review of the whole subject, and of impressing upon Americans a reverential attachment to the Constitution, as in the highest sense the palladium of American liberty. JANUARY, 1833. |