A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE TRUE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Being a review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States,

by a Virginian by Abel Upshur

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First edition

Petersburg, VA : Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1840. First edition. 23 cm. 132pp., errata. Rebound in green buckram. Institutional blind stamp on title page. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Howes U-24. Cohen 2947. Haynes 19533. Upshur was removed from Princeton for leading a student rebellion in 1807. He was a pro-slavery advocate and a staunch supporter of the limits of the Federal Government. He was Secretary of the Navy under Tyler until his

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