Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... James , The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment ( 1956 ) .5 Outstanding works with any kind of cultural dimension treating issues that developed between Genesis and Revelation include Charles W. McGurdy , The Anti - Rent Era in New York ...
... James , The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment ( 1956 ) .5 Outstanding works with any kind of cultural dimension treating issues that developed between Genesis and Revelation include Charles W. McGurdy , The Anti - Rent Era in New York ...
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... James M. Beck , then Solicitor General of the United States , observed in 1924 ( with a wistful blend of pride and realism ) : " the Constitution , in which there is not a wasted word , is as cold and dry a document as a problem in ...
... James M. Beck , then Solicitor General of the United States , observed in 1924 ( with a wistful blend of pride and realism ) : " the Constitution , in which there is not a wasted word , is as cold and dry a document as a problem in ...
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... James Madison called it " the cement of the Union . " 16 Others have referred to it as " the great code , " as " a frame of government , " and as " that fundamental law . " My concern throughout this book , if I may paraphrase Elton ...
... James Madison called it " the cement of the Union . " 16 Others have referred to it as " the great code , " as " a frame of government , " and as " that fundamental law . " My concern throughout this book , if I may paraphrase Elton ...
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... James M. Beck brought out a much larger book , with a foreword written by President Coolidge , directed to a more educated yet general audience . " The average Ameri- can , " Beck declared , takes " scant interest in the nature of the ...
... James M. Beck brought out a much larger book , with a foreword written by President Coolidge , directed to a more educated yet general audience . " The average Ameri- can , " Beck declared , takes " scant interest in the nature of the ...
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... James Madison have frequently been invoked , or else quoted out of context , to bolster arguments that would have appalled them . Southern misuses of Madison and Jefferson to support states ' rights polemics , especially be- tween the ...
... James Madison have frequently been invoked , or else quoted out of context , to bolster arguments that would have appalled them . Southern misuses of Madison and Jefferson to support states ' rights polemics , especially be- tween the ...
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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