[Jeff Winston]

Once again, worth mentioning:

Bayard’s exposition of the Constitution was vetted by a Who’s Who of America’s greatest early legal experts, including the Great Chief Justice John Marshall, legendary Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, the famous Chancellor James Kent, and others.

Bayard himself was the grandson of Signer of the Constitution and United States Senator #1, Richard Bassett. And Bayard’s father also became a Senator, and was known to his peers as “High Priest of the Constitution.”

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Sort of neat info from the website where Bayard's book, Brief Exposition Constitution, is found. It is apparently a copy from the John Adams Library:

John Adams Library copy is unlikely to have belonged to President John Adams

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams Library copy inscribed on first leaf: "Hon. John Q. Adams with the respects of the author."