Table of Contents

Foreword, vii
Note on the Text, xix
Note on Tucker’s Numbering of the Amendments, xxi On the Study of Law, 1
On Sovereignty and Legislature, 18
Of the Several Forms of Government, 21
View of the Constitution of the United States, 91
Of the Unwritten, or Common Law of England; And Its Introduction into, and Authority Within the United American States, 313
Of the Right of Conscience; And of the Freedom of Speech and of the Press, 371
Of the Cognizance of Crimes and Misdemeanours, 395
On the State of Slavery in Virginia, 402 Index, 447