St. George Tucker
St. George Tucker: The American Founding’s Preeminent Originalist
While many of America’s founders are justifiably famous, others have received too little attention. St. George Tucker is one. Born July 10, 1752, in Bermuda, Tucker was a militia colonel in the American Revolution, who even wrote Liberty: a Poem, on the Independence...
Blackstone’s Commentaries: On the Power to Declare War
EDITOR’S NOTE: St. George Tucker was the most widely cited legal scholar of the early American Republic. This article on the Constitutional power to declare war is excerpted from his work, Blackstone’s Commentaries. Published in 1803, this was the major treatise...
Tucker and the US Constitution
Source: Foreword, by Clyde Wilson, to St. George Tucker’s View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings, ed. Clyde N. Wilson (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1999). St. George Tucker’sView of the Constitution of the United...