Constitutional reform, in a series of articles contributed to the Democratic review, upon constitutional guarantees in political government : the errors and abuses to which they are liable : the proper mode of Reforming them : political patronage in its effects upon the freedom and purity of elections : together with a history of Constitutional reform in New-Jersey, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi and New-York : to which are added two letters of the Hon. Michael Hoffman, delegate to the New-York State Convention for 1846, on a re-organization of the judiciary of the State of New-York, and on the reforms necessary in the body of the law and in the written pleadings, and in the practice of the courts of that state : also, the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, on constitutional reform / edited by Thomas Prentice Kettell