Reflections on the changes which may seem necessary in the present Constitution of the State of New York

by Francis Lieber

This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

52 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1867

About the author

Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800 – 1872), known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana. He was the author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War, also known as Code for the Government of Armies in the Field (1863). The Lieber Code is considered the first document to comprehensively outline rules regulating the conduct of war, and laid the foundation for the Geneva Conventions.