CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

AND LAW

BY

ALBERT H. PUTNEY, A. B., D. C. L., LL. D.

DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AT THE ILLINOIS COLLEGE
OF LAW; AUTHOR OF “GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES;" "LAND-
MARK CASES IN UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW:"
"POPULAR LAW LIBRARY;" MEMBER CHICAGO BAR

UNIVERSITY OF

LIBRARY

CHICAGO

ILLINOIS BOOK EXCHANGE

OUTLINE OF ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL AND LEGAL HIS-

TORY TO THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE III..

SECTION

9. The Teutonic origin of England's political and legal

institutions

11. The conquest of Britain....

12. Changes in Anglo-Saxon political institutions occa-

PAGE

27. The Magna Charta...

28. Contest between the king and the English people

during the reign of Henry III....

45

47

29. The Curia Regis and the origin of the English Par-

liament

30. The English Justinian..

31.

The development of the House of Commons during

the fourteenth century.

49

32. The influence of Roman law in England and the

development of equity jurisprudence..

51

33. Contest for the throne of England between the

houses of York and Lancaster....

51

OUTLINE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL AND LEGAL HISTORY OF

THE THIRTEEN COLONIES, AND OF THE UNITED STATES PRIOR TO

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

61.

The Articles of Confederation..

PAGE

96

.....

62. Judicial powers of the United States government

under the Articles of Confederation.....

97

63. Causes leading up to Constitutional Convention.. 100

CHAPTER IV.

THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

SECTION 64. Revolutionary character of the federal convention... 102

65.

Character of the works of the convention.....

103

66. The members of the Constitutional Convention... 105

67. Meeting and organization of the convention..

106

68.

69.

Grounds of controversy in the federal convention... 107

The Virginia plan..

107

74. Changes made by the convention in the report of the

The adoption of the Constitution by the states.. 132

79. The Amendments to the Constitution..

133

CHAPTER V.

THE DIVISION OF POWERS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE

STATES.

SECTION 80.

81.

82.

The most difficult problems of the federal convention 134

Conflicting views as to the proper relation between

the governments of the United States and those

of the States..

134

Contest in American history between the conflicting

views as to the relations between the government

of the United States and those of the states..... 135

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and

..... 137

The supremacy of the Constitution, statutes and

treaties of the United States..

141