Two volumes. xxxiii, 734; 632 pp. First published in 1833, this work is generally considered to be the most important work written on the American Constitution before the Civil War, and it remains an important work.

Contains a little-known series of legal essays written by Joseph Story for the first edition of the Encyclopedia Americana, edited by Francis Lieber.

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States-Abridged by the Author for the Use of Colleges and High Schools was an abridgment by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of his own previously published three-volume work of 1833.