The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Preface by theE arl of Balfour I HAVE been greatly honoured by your invitation to take the chair on this interesting occasion. It gives me special pleasure to be able to introduce to this distinguished audience my friend, Mr. Beck, Solicitor-G eneral of the United States. It is a great and responsible office; but long before he held it he was known to theE nglish public and toE nglish readers as the author who, perhaps more than any other writer in our language, contributed a statement of the Allied case in the Great War which produced effects far beyond the country in which it was written or the public to which it was first addressed. Mr. Beck approached that great theme in the spirit of a great [A ddress of theE arl of Balfour as Chairman on the occasion of the delivery on June 13, 1922, in Gray sI nn of the first of the lectures herein reprinted.
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