What was the purpose of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England was a hugely influential treatise on English law that methodically rendered that massive body of statutes and legal decisions called the “common law” into a coherent system of legal principles intelligible to the lay-person.

Explanation:

lincoln declared that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new states, and of course this angered the south at the time.

4 copper and gold, the california gold rush is why im pretty sure.