Follow the indigenous development
of both of these from the old Crown Charters, and finally up to the
Constitution itself.
Then take Bancroft's "History of the United States"; then that great
monument of intellectual achievement in the realm of historical
criticism, Von Holtz's "Constitutional History of the United States."
Books like Douglass Campbell's remarkable production, Fisher's
convincing yet novel essay, and other like serious and original works,
too numerous to properly mention here, are helpful.
Nothing is more disgusting to an informed court than to hear a surface
argument on constitutional law by an advocate who thinks he has
mastered that tremendous subject by studying all the decisions upon
any given point.
You will say this is a heavy task I am assigning you. It is, indeed.
But have you not chosen the profession of the law? And, if so, do you
dare to be less than a lawyer? How dare you not shoulder your glorious
burden with patience, fortitude, and determination? Do not be as if
you were to enlist as a soldier, and end as a camp-follower.
I am told that the leader of the American bar has a standing order
with his booksellers to send him every new book of approved merit in
all the departments of literature.
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