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Excerpt from An Essay on Judicial Power and Unconstitutional Legislation: Being a Commentary on Parts of the Constitution of the United States Subordinate to this chief purpose are four others. First of these subordinate purposes is to show that Framers of the constitution according to the extant records of their debates and proceedings at Philadelphia in 1787, ex pressly intended to provide for the said judicial competency as to such unconstitutional legislation. The second subordinate purpose is to point out and com ment upon certain texts in federal documents older than the constitution, which are historical antecedents of the constitutional texts concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.