Sources 86 1 Official Opinions of the Attorney General of the United States (24 vols, to 1900, Washington, 1S52- ). Of the four following collections of select cases, the first two are general, but include some of the most important cases defining the foreign powers of the United States government. The last two are special, and are important aids to the study of American diplomacy. James Bradley Thayer, Cases in Constitutional Law, ivith Notes, 2 vols., (Cambridge, 1894-1895). — A most admirable selection, by a great constitutional lawyer. Carl Evans Boyd, Cases on American Constitutional Law (Chicago, 1898). — Practically a selection from Thayer's Cases.
- Freeman Snow, Cases and Opinions in International Law, with
Notes and a Syllabus (Boston, 1893). — Notes very few; syllabus at pp. xiii-xL; cases convenient and to the point. Pitt Cobbett, Leading Cases and Opinions in International Law col- lected and digested from English and Foreign Reports, and Other Sources. JVith Notes and Excursus, containing the Views of the Text Writers referred to, with Supplementary Cases, Treaties and Statutes (London, 1S62). D. American Official Correspondence. The United States government has published seven different series of diplomatic correspondence. Upon the character and history of these collections see Justin Winsor, Reader s Handbook of the American Revolu- tion (Boston, 1S80), and Narrative and Critical History of America, VII. 294; VIII. 414. 1. Jared Sparks, editor, The Diplomatic Correspondence ofthe.Anieri can Revolution, 12 vols., (Boston, 1829-1830, 2d ed. in 6 vols., Wash- ington, 1857). — This series includes despatches to and from our foreign representatives from 1776 to 17S3; and also the correspondence of the French ministers with Congress. 2. Francis Wharton, editor, The Revolutionary Diplomatic Corre- spondence of the United States, 6 vols., (Washington, 1S89). — This con- tains substantially the material of the Sparks edition, with many addi- tions; and is arranged chronologically. 3. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America from the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, loth September, 1783, to the Adoption of the Constitution, March 4, ijSg, 7 vols., (Washington, 1833-1834; reprinted in 3 vols., 1837). — This correspondence is ar- ranged on about the plan of Sparks' s Correspondence. 4. Thomas B. AA^ait, editor. State Papers and Public Documents of the United States, being a Complete Fierc of our Foreign Relations, 12 vols., (Boston, 1817-1819). — This series extends from 1789 to 1818, and is practically superseded by the American State Papers, Foreign. 5. Walter Lowrie and Matthew St. Clair Clarke, editors, American State Papers; Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. Class I. Foreign Relations, 6 vols., (Washington, 1832- 1859). — This series is a reprint of correspondence submitted at various
