A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States.

2012. ISBN-13: 9781616192723; ISBN-10: 1616192720. 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. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 372 pp. Reprinted 2012 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616192723. ISBN-10: 1616192720. Paperback. New. $29.95 * Reprint of the 1865 edition. A manual on the Constitution for the Everyman, by an early master of that document. Designed to follow the order of Story's well-known Commentaries on the Constitution, this work is written in language geared to the student or layman, nevertheless showing great breadth and profundity in his explications.