Excerpt from Lectures on the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: Delivered Before the Dwight Alumni Association, New York, April-May, 1898

I have also thought it useful to annotate the whole Constitution. For this purpose, the search has been at the original source, and every volume of the Supreme Court reports has been examined. In this research and the preparation of the analytical index, I have been assisted by Mr. Theodore S. Beecher.

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