Kent’s Commentaries

The Founders’ Constitution includes the following Commentaries by Chancellor James Kent:

• Article 1, Section 1, Document 10
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:207–10, 1826
• Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, Document 21
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:397–98; 2:33–63, 1826, 1827
• Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10, Document 11
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:1–4, 15–19, 171–76, 1826
• Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11, Document 16
  James Kent, Commentaries 53-67, 1826
• Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15, Document 21
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:244–50, 1826
• Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1,Document 26
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:179–87, 1826
• Article 2, Section 2, Clauses 2 and 3, Document 31
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:154–68, 1826
• Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2, Document 6
  James Kent, Commentaries 1:360–61, 1826
• Amendment I (Speech and Press), Document 32
  James Kent, Commentaries 2:12–22, 1826