Titles Edited by Francis Newton Thorpe

1857 – 1926

Francis Thorpe (1857-1926) was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and a Professor of American Constitutional History at the University of Pennsylvania 1885-1898. He edited a 7 volume collection of Federal and State constitutions for the U.S. Congress.

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From the earliest written legal codes to the beginnings of modern constitutionalism, the history of law is the story of our working out how personal liberties interact with responsibilities to others.