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- ISBN: 9781594605505 | 1594605505
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/2009
William Rawle, who died in 1836, was a leading member of the first generation of American lawyers after independence, and his A View of the Constitution was one of the most influential books on constitutional law published before the Civil War. The book?s interest is not, however, merely historical: Rawle?s approach provides a powerful challenge to contemporary assumptions about the original meaning and ongoing significance of the Constitution. His understanding of the constitutional authority of the president ? he saw it as broad yet legally bounded ? is especially interesting given our current debates.This book is part of the Carolina Academic Press Historical Reprint Series, edited by H. Jefferson Powell, Duke University School of Law.