Changes in the Balance of Governmental Power

Authors

Thomas M. Cooley, University of Michigan Law School

Document Type

Speech

Publication Date

1878

Abstract

“In taking up for brief review the action of the convention in framing, and that of the people of the Union in adopting the Federal Constitution ninety years ago, we should be able after such a lapse of time, and in view of our diversified experience under it, to deal with it in a spirit of dispassionate criticism, and without boasting or unreasonable exultation. Yet we may perhaps truly say that the act itself was the most notable in government-making of which history bears record….”

Comments

“An address to the Law Students of Michigan University, March 20, 1878.”

Recommended Citation

Cooley, Thomas M. Changes in the Balance of Governmental Power. Ann Arbor: Douglas & Co., 1878.