These essential principles of the Constitution may be briefly summarized as follows:

[Footnote 21: Many of these details concerning the executive departments are admirably summarized, and with more fullness than comports with the design of the present work, in Thorpe's Government of the People of the United States, pp.

The problem of the authorship has been patiently studied, and the arguments for authenticity concisely summarized by Vessereau make a strong case.

A quotation from Sir James MacKenzie, most distinguished of modern English students of medicine, summarizes the matter neatly.