e_ Williams _v._ United States, 341 U.S. 97 (1951).
[77] _See:_ Oliver Wendell Holmes, _Collected Legal Papers_, 239,
295-296 (1920); Merlo J. Pusey, _Charles Evans Hughes_, I, 203-206
(1951). Burns Baking Co. _v._ Bryan, 204 U.S. 504, 534 (1924); Baldwin
_v._ Missouri, 281 U.S. 586, 595 (1930); _American Political Science
Review_, xii, 241 (1918); _New York Times_, February 12, 1930. It was
also during the same period that Judge Andrew A. Bruce of North Dakota
wrote: "We are governed by our judges and not by our legislatures.... It
is our judges who formulate our public policies and our basic law". _The
American Judge_, 6, 8 (1924). Substantially contemporaneously a well
read French critic described our system as _Le Gouvernment des Juges_
(1921); while toward the end of the period Louis B. Boudin published his
well known _Government by Judiciary_ (2 vols., 1932).
[78] _Collected Legal Papers_, 295-296.
CONTENTS
[For contents in detail, see tables at beginning of each article and
amendment]
Page
Prefaces III, V
Editor's forward VII
Editor's introduction IX
Historical note on formation of the Constitution 9
Text of the Constitution (literal print) 17
Text of the amendments (literal print) 37
The Constitution, with annotations 55
The preamble 59
Article I. Legislative Department:
Section 1. The Congress 71
2. House of Representatives 87
3. Senate 91
4. Elections and meetings 92
5. Legislative proceedings 95
6. Rights of Members 99
7. Bills and resolutions 101
8. Powers of Congress 105
9. Powers denied to Congress 312
10. Powers denied to the States 325
Article II. Executive Department:
Section 1. The President
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