Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... Adams intoned the standard line ; but eight years later , in his carefully prepared address for the Golden Jubilee of the Constitution , Adams acknowledged that the relationship between pros- perity and the Constitution " may perhaps be ...
... Adams intoned the standard line ; but eight years later , in his carefully prepared address for the Golden Jubilee of the Constitution , Adams acknowledged that the relationship between pros- perity and the Constitution " may perhaps be ...
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... Adams , writing as " Novanglus , " de- scribed the British imperial constitution as a vast but broken mechanism : " the great machine will not go any longer without a new wheel . She [ Bri- tannia ] will make this herself . We think she ...
... Adams , writing as " Novanglus , " de- scribed the British imperial constitution as a vast but broken mechanism : " the great machine will not go any longer without a new wheel . She [ Bri- tannia ] will make this herself . We think she ...
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... Adams could comment that " fifty years have passed away since the first impulse was given to the wheels of this political machine . " 51 James Fenimore Cooper uttered one of the few expressions of con- cern couched in this language ...
... Adams could comment that " fifty years have passed away since the first impulse was given to the wheels of this political machine . " 51 James Fenimore Cooper uttered one of the few expressions of con- cern couched in this language ...
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... Adams epitomized the view that predominated from the 1790s until the first years of this century . The American Revolu- tion " was a work of thirteen years , " he explained , incomplete until 1787 . " The Declaration of Independence and ...
... Adams epitomized the view that predominated from the 1790s until the first years of this century . The American Revolu- tion " was a work of thirteen years , " he explained , incomplete until 1787 . " The Declaration of Independence and ...
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... Adams and Thomas Jefferson active at the Convention when , in fact , they were serving in 1787 as our ministers to Great Britain and France , respec- tively . We also learn that the famous rising sun , utilized by Benjamin Franklin on ...
... Adams and Thomas Jefferson active at the Convention when , in fact , they were serving in 1787 as our ministers to Great Britain and France , respec- tively . We also learn that the famous rising sun , utilized by Benjamin Franklin on ...
Contents
2 | 43 |
PART | 125 |
The American and the British Constitution | 156 |
The Crisis in Constitutionalism | 185 |
God Knows How Dearly We Need | 219 |
Decisions Are Politics When Constitutional | 255 |
My God Making a Racket out | 282 |
PART FOUR | 313 |
The Public Got Strange and Distorted | 357 |
Its What Holds Us All Together | 381 |
Appendix A A Note on the Sources | 403 |
Abbreviations | 411 |
95 | 417 |
156 | 429 |
Index | 509 |
Our Bill of Rights Is Under | 336 |
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A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Russell Fraser Limited preview - 2017 |
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