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réf. 0267072996.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1333933819.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1847réf. 1239761847. First Edition. CONSTITUTION PHILLIPS Wendell. Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Reprinted from the ""Anti-Slavery Standard"" With Additions. Boston: Andrews & Prentiss 1847. Octavo modern half calf gilt marbled boards; pp. 1-3 4-95 1. $1600.First edition in book form of Phillips' bold and influential antebellum work on the U.S. Constitution and the question of slavery revised and ""with additions"" to its serialization in the Anti-Slavery Standard.Controversy over slavery ""was the most important single influence on American constitutional development before the Civil War"" Wiecek Sources 15. Leaders in that controversy were William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips and Lysander Spooner. As an anti-constitutionalist Phillips deemed ""Prophet of Liberty Champion of the Slave"" made his ""first public pronouncement that the Constitution should be abandoned"" when in 1842 he asserted the ""'spirit of liberty' is 'chained down in the iron links of the United States Constitution'"" and subsequently argued the Constitution was a ""'compromise'É between freedom and slavery"" Knowles Securing the 'Blessings'"" 41. Phillips' 1844 work Constitution: A Pro-Slavery Compact prompted Spooner to author Unconstitutionality of Slavery First Part: 1845 Second Part: 1847 arguing it was instead slavery that was unconstitutional not the founding document. Phillips quickly countered with this Review.""Phillips insisted the only path to justice 'is over the Constitution trampling it under foot'. and raised pertinent questions about the processes of constitutionalism. Must a just person reject an imperfect constitution or even one that sanctioned and protected an evil like slavery to work effectively for constitutional reform and to abolish injustice Or was it possible to regard the constitution as an imperfect but amendable instrumentÉ the only thing available in the here and now of a heterogeneous secular society that can serve as a means of changing a society's goals and structuring"" Wiecek 246. To Phillips Spooner's approach essentially ""leaves every one to do 'what is right in his own eyes.'"" Spooner and Phillips also disagreed on remedies to immoral laws. ""Spooner did not consider an immoral contract binding"" and argued for example that judges rely instead on natural law for their decisions. Phillips felt that in such circumstances a judge should resign. In this Review Phillips also offers ""a new area in which antislavery and anarchy"" could be connected when he describes Spooner's ""antislavery constitutionalismÉ as 'the first step toward anarchy'"" Perry Radical Abolitionism 165-66. First edition first printing. Serialized earlier the same year in the Anti-Slavery Standard the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society which was co-founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappen. Sabin 62524. Dumond 93. Not in Blockson. Text fresh and about-fine. hardcover
réf. 1019235578.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1682réf. 1206631682. CONSTITUTION SOMERS John. The Security of English-Mens Lives Or the Trust Power and Duty of the Grand Jurys of England. London: Printed for Benj. Alsop 1682. Small octavo 4 by 6-1/2 inches 18th-century brown morocco raised bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt; pp. 1-2 3-168. $3400.1682 edition of Somers' profoundly influential work on the power of the grand jury the second of only two 17th-century editions issued the year after the firstÑ""one of the fundamental foundations of the common law in the American colonies""Ñprompting revolution with Somers' invoking the grand jury and its protection of secrecy as key in opposing ""corrupt Ministers of State"" and those who ""abuse or oppress the PeopleÉ in the form and course of Justice"" seminal in the creation of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment with Jefferson calling grand juries ""the true tribunal of the people.""British statesman Baron John Somers' most famous and influential work is Grand Jurys. ""Of the legal scholars writing about the grand jury in the late 17th century Somers is not only representative but eminent having been read in both England and the colonies"" Kadish Behind the Locked Door 5-10. Grand Jurys is considered a seminal influence on Locke and America's Founding Fathers and it is ""likely that Locke knew Somers by the early 1680sÉ The opposition of absolute monarchy to the security provided by 'impartial law' was structurally central to Locke's Second Treatise 1689 which attacked the threat to life liberty and property posed by a loss of 'impartial justice'É Locke's arguments are a logical extension of the arguments that juries provided the only security of life"" Marshall John Locke 52. To Somers similarly the grand jury offers ""security"" from the ""Ill Designs of corrupt Minsters of State"" and those who ""dare to abuse or oppress the People."" Somers' Grand Jurys is ""a classic statement of political freedom. He works his way through a number of themes that will be frequently repeated by others."" Chief among these is his argument that ""the independent grand jury is the linchpin of the entire criminal justice system. It brings offenders to justice and protects the innocent from false accusation guaranteeing the traditional rights of Englishmen particularly their political rights in relation to the CrownÉ and joins Parliament as a counterweight to the arbitrary power of the monarch and his judges"" Shapiro Beyond Reasonable Doubt 67. With its origins found deep within English legal history the grand jury was ""eulogized by Coke and BlackstoneÉ and crossed the Atlantic as one of the fundamental foundations of the common law in the American colonies"" Roots If It's Not a Runaway. ""Indeed there is an important sense in which the jury issue united not only America's revolutionary period and Founding era but also the 'settlement' years immediately following 1789"" Stimson Juries and American Revolutionary Jurisprudence 34-5.As American ""opposition to the British became more overt grand juries became more sympathetic to the colonistsÉ the famous case of John Peter Zenger is a prime exampleÉ as two separate N.Y. grand juries refused to indict him for criminal libel. Further in 1765 a Boston grand jury refused to find an indictment against the leaders of the Stamp Act Riots"" Paule Perversion of the Historic Function 304. ""Perhaps the best known case of grand jury independence involved the twice-unsuccessful efforts to indict former Vice President Aaron Burr for attempting to involve the U.S. in a war with SpainÉ Burr was finally indicted when a grand jury was convened in Virginia the stronghold of Burr's enemy Thomas Jefferson. Despite Jefferson's best efforts Burr was acquitted at trial in part because the judge gave such a narrow jury instruction and made evidentiary rulings so favorable to the defense that conviction was nearly impossible. The trial judge was John Marshall one of Jefferson's rivals"" Leopold Why Grand Juries 286.""The framers of the Constitution perceived the function of the grand jury as so essential to liberty that they specifically provided for it"" in the Fifth Amendment Paule 305. ""With its Grand Jury Clause insuring that 'no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury'É the Clause protected the people against arbitrary and overzealous government by protecting 'against hasty malicious and oppressive prosecution.' Secrecy in grand jury proceedings played a role in that protection."" For Somers in particular the secrecy requirement was absolute. In Grand Jurys he describes ""how grand jurors were sworn not to disclose the subjects of the inquiry the witnesses or any of the evidence. In addition grand jurors were sworn not to reveal their own personal knowledge the knowledge of their fellow jurors their investigative plans or their deliberationsÉ according to SomersÉ secrecy made possible the discovery of truth and protected individuals from malicious or hateful prosecution. In sum neither the king the general public nor the individual accused could benefit by making public the proceedings of a grand jury. The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment made grand jury secrecy an implicit part of American criminal procedure"" Kadish 5-16. ""In a petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia Jefferson once termed the Anglo-Saxon tradition of trial by grand and petit jury 'the true tribunal of the people'"" Shannon Grand Jury 141. Jefferson owned and held two other works by Somers in his library. Preceded only by the 1681 first edition. Anonymously issued with Wing identifying Somers as author. Precedes the 1773 American edition. Pages 156-167 containing Latin and English text printed on opposite pages; final text page with ""Finis."" ESTC R10363. Wing S4643. Sweet & Maxwell I:378 34. See Sowerby 2015 2712. Early owner signature above title page.Text very fresh expert restoration to handsome binding. A very good copy. hardcover
1898réf. 337605Authority Of The General Assembly 1898. Hardcover. Good-. . 6x9. GOOD-. Red Half Leather - spine and corners bound in leather with white boards. Frontispiece with wax paper protector. Approx. 6'' x 9''. Heavy wear and chips to edges and corners. Some slight discoloration and moderate soiling to leather and boards. Few chips and white stains to front cover. Possible liquid stains to edges of inside covers and end papers. Light pencil writing to top of 1st blank page. Clean inner pages with bright text. Once Read Books cover scan available - just ask OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS. Authority Of The General Assembly hardcover
réf. 1390446441.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 042817485X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1789réf. 1001478vo later calf backed marbled boards 320 202 pp. Edges and covers rubbed occasional bit of foxing but overall very good. The most important feature of this collection is an early British printing of the United States Constitution p.289-300. Also contains a curious description of two Negro children with some unusual physical markings see p.53-55. Very interesting coverage of a few executions including a woman who was hanged for forgery is also provided. J. Dodsley hardcover
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réf. 101825126X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1355911354.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1788réf. 30007.048Philadelphia PA 1788. Softcover. Fine. The Columbian Magazine. Magazine. The Columbian Magazine Philadelphia Pa. December 1788. 52 pp. 5 x 8 in. Lacking plates. This title has the honor of being the first successful American magazine having begun in September 1786 and lasting until December 1792. Although many titles existed earlier none enjoyed the success of lasting beyond a few issues or a couple of years.Opens with five pages on ""An Account of the Ancient Colleges at Cambridge in New England."" that being Harvard University. pp. 669-673.A recipe for making artificial Asses milk p. 698.With ""The American Plutarch - Memoirs of Captain John Smith"" pp. 699-703 continued for a previous issue and concluded in the next.A section on ""American Intelligence"" pp. 715-718 with the latest news reports including an item from Edenton North Carolina:""a new convention be recommended for the purpose of reconsidering the new constitution held out by the federal convention as a government for the United States."" p. 716.With a ""List of Senators of the United States Already Chosen"" by state pp. 717-718.Also mention of the officers for the Masonic Lodge at Philadelphia p. 716. paperback books
réf. 2834P ., Imprimerie Nationale, (An II) (1794). In 4° de 6 pp.
réf. 17163Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1848.
1788réf. 30007.003Philadelphia PA 1788. No binding. Fine. Independent Gazetteer; or The Chronicle of Freedom. Newspaper. Independent Gazetteer; or The Chronicle of Freedom Philadelphia Pa. May 6 1788. 4 pp. 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. The Maryland ratifying convention suggests some amendments along with their approval of the Constitution. ExcerptsFrom page 3:""From the MARYLAND GAZETTE or April 29 1788. The CONVENTION of this state on Saturday last determined to ratify the proposed plan of Federal Government. -YEAS 63 NAYS 11-And then appointed a committee of thirteen members to consider and report amendments to be recommended to the people. -The following amendments were proposed by a member and referred to the committee who are now sitting-And it is hoped that the great and essential rights of the people will be declared and secured.- PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.Wherefore whenever the ends of Government are perverted and public liberty manifestedly endangered and all other means of redress are ineffectual the people may and of right ought to object to reform the old or establish a new Government-that the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. All imposts and duties laid by Congress shall be placed to the credit of the state in which the same be collected. That there shall be no national religion established by law; but that all persons be equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. That the Supreme Federal Courts shall not admit to fictions to extend its jurisdiction; nor shall citizens of the same state having controversies with each other be suffered to make collusive assignments of their rights to the citizens of another state for the purpose of defeating the jurisdiction of the State Courts; nor shall any matter or question already determined in the State Courts be revived or agitated in the Federal Courts. That Congress have no power to lay a Poll-Tax. That the people have a right to freedom of speech of writing and publishing their sentiments and therefore that the freedom of the PRESS ought not to be restrained and the printing presses ought to be free to examine the proceedings of Government and the conduct of its officers.""From page 2: Protesting the Slave Trade by Boycotting West Indian Produce""A CAUTION.WHEREAS in the year 1787 some vessels were fitted out at the port of Philadelphia for the iniquitous purpose of stealing the inhabitants of Africa from all the endearments of domestic life; one of which vessels has succeeded in obtaining a number of poor blacks and has taken the to a port in the West Indies where they are under the iron hand of oppression. From this shameful traffic this horrid source the proprietors of the vessel have purchased some West India produce which after landing at Wilmington they have brought up to this city and offered for sale. It is a grateful circumstance to the supporters of the common rights of mankind that the virtuous inhabitants of the city reprobate the horrid idea.-A correspondent hopes that the citizens will further testify their disapprobation of the practice by turning with indignation from the purchase of any property thus basely procured by men so lost to the common feelings of humanity; notwithstanding the patriotic convention at which Washington presided have declared that this abominable traffic shall be continued for TWENTY years by the people of America.From page 1:An advertisement with engraving for a ""Line of Stages"" between Philadelphia and New York started by four partners who split off from an established stage line and promising better service. From page 4:An advertisement for another different ""New Line of Stages."" And a report on the creation of a Philadelphia committee for the relief of the nearly 100 Americans captured by Algerian corsairs and Barbary pirates. unknown books
1789réf. 1001478vo later calf backed marbled boards 320 202 pp. Edges and covers rubbed occasional bit of foxing but overall very good. The most important feature of this collection is an early British printing of the United States Constitution p.289-300. Also contains a curious description of two Negro children with some unusual physical markings see p.53-55. Very interesting coverage of a few executions including a woman who was hanged for forgery is also provided. J. Dodsley hardcover books
1986réf. 201643Washington: Congressional Quarterly 1986. hardcover. very good-. Illus. 8vo decorated boards back cover lightly soiled. Washington: Congressional Quarterly 1986. Collection of essays chosen from This Constitution magazine. Congressional Quarterly unknown books
réf. c4977Paris, Imprimerie de l' Assemblée Nationale, sans date (1963) ; livret in-12° broché, couverture gris pale imprimée en noir avec timbre-poste 0, 20+0, 10 F, oblitéré à la date du 20 décembre 1963; 34pp. ( dont les derniers feuillets roses.Livret fixant règlement et édité à l' occasion du Congrès du Parlement tenu à Versailles le décembre 1963, avec, oblitarétion philatélique " premier jour ".Très bon état.
1795réf. 177010De l'Imprimerie de la République A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de la République, 1795 - An IV. In-16 relié demi-basane blonde à petits coins, dos lisses, filets dorés, pièces de titre. 1 ff blanc, titre, X + 360 page, 1 ff blanc. Constitution de l'an III, qui contient une Déclaration des "droits" de l'homme revue et corrigée, mais aussi des "devoirs" de l'homme. C'est la seule Constitution française qui définit le territoire, c'est aussi la plus longue constitution. Adoptée le 5 fructidor an II (22 août 1795), elle sera appliquée durant quatre ans, jusqu'au coup d'État de Bonaparte, le 18 brumaire an VIII. Bel exemplaire très propre et bien relié.
réf. 47300Bruxelles, Le Moniteur Belge, 1945. 13 x 21, 50 pp., broché, bon état (couverture : 1 coin pliée).
réf. 44242Londres, Baker and Walls, 1943. 16 x 24, 80 pp., broché, bon état.
réf. 32491Bruxelles, Etablissements Emile Bruylant, 1949. 13 x 19, 51 pp., broché, bon état.
1938réf. 056446Librairie Falk Fils brochure Brx 1938 23 pages en format 12 - 21 cm
