The Story of the Constitution
Author | : Sol Bloom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258957049 |
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
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Author | : Sol Bloom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258957049 |
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Author | : Sol Bloom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the Constitution. It explores briefly the origins of our country, and the steps that led to the formation of the Constitution.
Author | : Sol Bloom |
Publisher | : Washington, D. C. : United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the Constitution. It explores briefly the origins of our country, and the steps that led to the formation of the Constitution.
Author | : John F. Kowal |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1620975629 |
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.
Author | : Noah Feldman |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374720878 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations
Author | : Elizabeth Levy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590451598 |
This behind-the-scenes study of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 details the events of the convention, the debate over constitutional issues, and the delegates
Author | : Catherine Drinker Bowen |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1986-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780316103985 |
A classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents: the Constitution of the United States. From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Constitutional Convention recommended as "required reading for every American." Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new, and Mrs. Bowen evokes it as if the reader were actually there, mingling with the delegates, hearing their arguments, witnessing a dramatic moment in history. Here is the fascinating record of the hot, sultry summer months of debate and decision when ideas clashed and tempers flared. Here is the country as it was then, described by contemporaries, by Berkshire farmers in Massachusetts, by Patrick Henry's Kentucky allies, by French and English travelers. Here, too, are the offstage voices--Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine and John Adams from Europe. In all, fifty-five men attended; and in spite of the heat, in spite of clashing interests--the big states against the little, the slave states against the anti-slave states--in tension and anxiety that mounted week after week, they wrote out a working plan of government and put their signatures to it.
Author | : Sol Bloom |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
A new foreword by Daniel J. Elazar.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : 9781451748086 |
All elementary school students learn about the history of the U.S. Constitution when they begin social studies. This book tells them about the great American document itself--explaining exactly what the Constitution does as well as how it affects and protects people today.
Author | : Francis Newton Thorpe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |