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1862 SLAVERY & TRIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION. Henry Ward Beecher's Copy of Important Civil War Text. Congregational Notes of a Sermon onA very important copy of a landmark work in the history of Constitutional Law. Lawyer, Sidney George Fisher 1862 work, presented here, The Trial of the Constitution, was the first work to interpret the U. S. Constitution "in light of the prevailing European tradition of centralized, responsible government", and it "deserves a permanent place among commentaries on American government . . . " [W. H. Ryker, 1954]. Historian and political scientist