A brief enquiry into the true nature and character of our federal government
Subtitle: being a review of judge Story's commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
By: by Abel P. Upshur ; with a new introduction by Donald W. Livingston.
Publisher: Alethes Press Leesburg
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Virginia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934182024
Subjects: Federal government -- United States; Constitutional history -- United States
Description: "A primary-source document in American constitutional law and thought by a prominent statesman in the early national period, Abel P. Upshur, who here presents the first sustained theoretical arguments in the American states' rights tradition"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published: Petersburg : Printed by Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1840.

Includes bibliographical references and index.