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GEORGE WASHINGTON'S NOTE laws and treaties of the United States; to mark particularly and distinctly the rules and decisions of the federal courts in matters both of law and practice. "To examine legally, critically, and his torically the constitutions and laws of the several states- in the Union; to compare those constitutions and laws with one another, and with the general rules of law and government; to investigate the nature, the properties, and the extent of that connection which subsists between the

federal government and the several states, and, of consequence, between each of the states and all the others. "To illustrate the genius, the elements, the origin, and the rules of the common law, in its theory and in its practice; to trace as far as possible that law to its fountains, to the laws and customs of the Normans, the Saxons, the Britons, the ancient Germans, the Romans, and perhaps in some instances the Grecians. "Under this head it is to be observed,

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