View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings

• St. George Tucker (author)
• Clyde N. Wilson (foreword)

View of the Constitutionwas the first extended, systematic commentary on the United States Constitution after its ratification and later its amendment by the Bill of Rights. As Clyde N. Wilson notes, “Tucker is the exponent of Jeffersonian republicanism … in contrast to the commercial republicanism of New England that has since the Civil War been taken to be the only true form of American philosophy.” Also included are seven other essays from Tucker’s edition of Blackstone.