A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union

Reprint of the fifth edition, the final authorial edition of Cooley's most important work. It went through six editions by 1890 and was cited more often that any other legal text in the late nineteenth century. This classic legal commentary on the Constitution examines the construction of state constitutions and the enactment of laws and "ranks with Story among the foremost commentators on the Constitution." Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 288. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1883.