A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union

Thomas McIntyre Cooley

Jan 1998 · The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

About this ebook

Reprint of the fifth edition, the final authorial edition of Cooley's most important work. It went through six editions by 1890 and was cited more often that any other legal text in the late nineteenth century. This classic legal commentary on the Constitution examines the construction of state constitutions and the enactment of laws and "ranks with Story among the foremost commentators on the Constitution." Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 288. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1883.

About the author

THOMAS MCINTYRE COOLEY [1824-1898] was the most important American jurist of the late-nineteenth century. For twenty years he served as the leading justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to serve on the Interstate Commerce Commission, where he was the leading commissioner and set several important precedents for administrative process. He taught at Johns Hopkins University and was dean of the University of Michigan Law School. First issued in 1870, his edition of Blackstone, popularly known as "Cooley's Blackstone," was the standard American edition of the late nineteenth century. Some of his other works include A Treatise on the Law of Taxation (1876) and A Treatise on the Law of Torts (1878). Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, founded in 1972, was named in his honor.