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Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Beau Breslin imagines what constitutions would have looked like throughout America's history if Thomas Jefferson's call for a new constitution every generation had been followed. Though based on the underlying and competing philosophies of the Jeffersonand Madison debates, the main focus of this book is a creative yet historically-grounded imagining of various generations' Constitutional Conventions. Breslin works through US history, drawing on state...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century America not only come alive, but the very human qualities of the men who framed the document are brought...
Author
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Description
This updated encyclopedia provides new analysis of the people, procedures, politics, primary documents and campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Each chapter provides in-depth analysis of each amendment. Chapters include a reprint of the Amendment; an Introduction to the reasons behind the amendment and its path to ratification; the Debate in Congress with transcripts of the back and forth from both advocates and...
Author
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Description
This updated encyclopedia provides new analysis of the people, procedures, politics, primary documents and campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Each chapter provides in-depth analysis of each amendment. Chapters include a reprint of the Amendment; an Introduction to the reasons behind the amendment and its path to ratification; the Debate in Congress with transcripts of the back and forth from both advocates and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. This book takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation. George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. At different points, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out, and some actually did. It was...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A retired Supreme Court Justice describes how the U.S. Constitution needs to be amended, detailing six specific changes that will protect democracy and ensure the safety and well-being of all American citizens.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Lee tells the dramatic, little-known stories behind six of the Constitution's most indispensable provisions. He shows their rise and fall, and he makes vividly clear how nearly every abuse of federal power today is rooted in neglect of this lost constitution.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A Yale Law School professor offers a thought-provoking analysis of the history and tenets of the U.S. Constitution, detailing the original intent of the creators of the document, answering questions about the text, and critically assessing the evolution of the Bill of Rights and all other amendments. In America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world without Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, or television…Little did the Framers of the United States Constitution know that their work would change the course of history, but that's exactly what it did. The Constitution has been called miraculous, revolutionary, unprecedented, all that and more! With it, our Founding Fathers created a free nation, a country governed by the people in a way never seen before. Youth Advocate for Constituting...
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