| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.1

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Collected Works of James Wilson, 2 vols. Edited by Kermit L. Hall and Mark David Hall. (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2007. xxvii, 1,262 pp. Bibliographical glossary, index. Cloth, $40; paper, $20.)
Kermit Hall, in his introduction to the new edition of James Wilson's works, indicates that these volumes are "the most comprehensive collection of materials ever assembled by and about James Wilson" (xxvi). The books also include a bibliographical essay—really a history of Wilson's law lectures—by political scientist Mark David Hall (no relation to Kermit Hall), who published The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson (1997).	1
This edition, however, does not contain many of the charges Wilson made to the grand juries when he was associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Rather, the editors included the two that "merit serious consideration" (xxvi). Similarly, only two of his Supreme Court opinions, Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) and Ware v. Hilton (1796), appear in the volume. Among other items found in the collection are the speeches that Wilson gave at the Federal Convention of 1787, the widely reprinted and controversial speech of October 6, 1787, which he gave at the Pennsylvania State House in defense of the Constitution, and the speeches he delivered during the Pennsylvania ratifying convention.	. . .

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