United States · Book or treatise
The collection holds volumes 1 and 3 of Story's 1833 constitutional Commentaries. Volume 3 adds the arms discussion cited in Heller, with its references to Tucker, Rawle, and other writers preserved. Volume 2 remains unacquired.
Requested text available. Collection target: Volumes 1 and 3 (1833); volume 2 remains unacquired.
Joseph Story · Volume 1 · 1833
Title page visually checked; PDF page 5.
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Use a section locator when referring to an individually numbered section; it may be combined with a checked page locator. The title page also lists Brown, Shattuck, and Co., Cambridge.
Joseph Story · Volume 3 · 1833
New York Public Library; digitized by the Internet Archive with Microsoft funding. No missing printed pages detected. Only volume 3 is covered by this verification; it does not make the three-volume set complete. OCR is an aid, not authoritative transcription.
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Antonin Scalia · Majority
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 608 (2008).
Story describes the militia and the right of citizens to keep and bear arms, then compares the English Bill of Rights. The footnotes cite Tucker, Rawle, Lloyd’s Debates, Cobbett, and Blackstone.
Antonin Scalia · Opinion of the Court
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 608 (2008).
Scalia’s Heller majority cites § 1858 for Story’s treatment of the English Bill of Rights, quotes § 1891, and points to § 1890 n.2 and § 1891 n.3 for Story’s references to Tucker and Rawle. All grouped locators are now visually checked. Section 1858 discusses bills of rights as restrictions on governmental powers; the footnote also cites Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and Cobbett.
Cites the original 1833 volume 3. The title page also identifies Brown, Shattuck, and Co., Cambridge. This volume does not complete the three-volume set.
Use section numbers where applicable, with a checked printed page locator. The verified arms passage is sections 1889–1891, at 746–747; its footnotes cite other writers and do not establish independent historical corroboration.
Section 1858, at printed pages 718–719, was also checked. Heller directly cites section 1858 on reporter page 608; the separately checked notes at pages 746–747 cite other historical writers.