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Those who have read McMaster's entertaining and discriminating magazine article upon "A Century of Constitutional Interpretation " will appreciate the tumult of political storm to which our constitution has been exposed during its first century, and will perhaps wonder wherein lay the strength which maintained it throughout all the political turbulence so To turn clearly portrayed in that article. from McMaster's sentences to the pages of Landon is like passing from the roar and the riot of the outward tempest into the interior of the foundations of the edifice, there to observe how firmly they are planted upon the solid rock. It is the merit of Professor Landon's lectures that he has so clearly shown wherein lies the strength of our constitutional system. As may be inferred from what has already been said, Professor Landon does not treat of |