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PREFACE.
The reader will soon discover that mere theories have received very little attention, and that the principles stated are those which have been settled, judicially or otherwise, in the practical working of the government.
THOMAS M. COOLEY.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
March, 1880.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
In the preparation of this edition, such changes in the text and notes of the first edition have been made as have been required by the many important decisions upon constitutional questions rendered within the last ten years. While the aim has been to keep the book a manual and not to make it a digest, it will be found, it is hoped, to treat briefly all important points covered by the cases decided up to this time.
ALEXIS C. ANGELL.
Detroit, August, 1891.
