Contains a little-known series of legal essays written by Joseph Story for the first edition of the Encyclopedia Americana, edited by Francis Lieber.

Reprint of 5th edition brings current to January 1891, this classic by Joseph Story. For the first time, a detailed Table of Cases has been included.

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States-Abridged by the Author for the Use of Colleges and High Schools was an abridgment by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of his own previously published three-volume work of 1833.