TO THE

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS, GENERAL
AND PROFESSIONAL.

BY

JOHN NORTON POMEROY, LL. D.,

DEAN OF THE LAW SCHOOL, AND GRISWOLD PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW YORK; AUTHOR OF "AN INTRODUCTION TO MUNICIPAL LAW.”

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.

Cambridge: Riverside Press.

1868.

1.8336.1 6345-75

HARVARD COLLLGE LIBRARY

FROM THE ESTATE OF
PROFESSOR E. W. GURNEY
MAY 3, 12.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
JOHN NORTON POMEROY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

Law divided into Public, and Private

What included in Public Law

Austin's and Savigny's classification

Falck's classification

What included in Private Law

Public Law divided into Political and International

Elementary idea of the "State" and of " Sovereignty"

What included in Political Law.

Political Law divided into General, and Special

Object of this treatise; political law of the United States

Methods of its study and interpretation

PART FIRST.

WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION, AND BY WHOM WAS IT

THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF THE ORGANIC LAW, AND

BODY POLITIC WHICH LIES BEHIND IT.

CREATED:

OF THE

CHAPTER I.

STATEMENT OF THEORIES; NATIONALITY OF THE UNITED STATES.

SECTION I.—THEORIES WHICH HAVE BEEN PROPOSED AND ADVOCATED.