A Treatise on the Constitution of Georgia

Authors

Walter McElreath

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Description

Excerpt from the preface:

Every thorough lawyer and careful judge in Georgia has experienced great difficulty in tracing the history of constitutional provisions through the scattered and rare volumes of digests, codes and sessions laws and has suffered great inconvenience in ascertaining with certainty what was the organic law with respect to a given proposition at a given time. To remove this difficulty and to lessen this inconvenience, the preparation of the present work was undertaken, with the primary purpose to exhibit the fundamental law of the state,-not to furnish a commentary upon it. It was at first proposed only to collect the several constitutions and their amendments and to arrange them in chronological order and to follow these with the present Constitution in its amended form with notes to such of its paragraphs as had been construed by the courts of last resort, citing only a few leading cases.

- Walter McElreath. Atlanta, Ga., November 15, 1911.

Publication Date

1912

Publisher

The Harrison Company

City

Atlanta

Keywords

Georgia history

Disciplines

Legal History

Repository Citation

McElreath, Walter, "A Treatise on the Constitution of Georgia" (1912). Historical Treatises. 13.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/historic_treat/13