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Framers Legal Mentor

“At the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England] had been published about twenty years, and * * * more copies of the work had been sold in this country than in England; so that undoubtedly, the framers of the Constitution were familiar with it”,[1] and considered it “the preeminent authority on English law”,[2] every legally literate American was also aware of the general rule for statutory construction which Blackstone taught.

Gramers Legal Mentor

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William Blackstone“At the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution had been published about twenty years, and * * * more copies...
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