Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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Page xi
... appearance twenty years ago on the eve of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution . Because the historical background and context of that event preoccupied me for most of a decade , the book emerged as the broad central panel ...
... appearance twenty years ago on the eve of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution . Because the historical background and context of that event preoccupied me for most of a decade , the book emerged as the broad central panel ...
Page xiii
... appeared remotely comparable to A Machine That Would Go of Itself in terms of long - term chrono- logical coverage — John E. Semonche , Keeping the Faith : A Cul- tural History of the U.S. Supreme Court ( 1998 ) , whose focus is not so ...
... appeared remotely comparable to A Machine That Would Go of Itself in terms of long - term chrono- logical coverage — John E. Semonche , Keeping the Faith : A Cul- tural History of the U.S. Supreme Court ( 1998 ) , whose focus is not so ...
Page xvii
... appeared here and there ; but no one has brought them together or established a framework for exploring their cultural significance . More- over , the most revealing clusters of pertinent source material have been ignored entirely . I ...
... appeared here and there ; but no one has brought them together or established a framework for exploring their cultural significance . More- over , the most revealing clusters of pertinent source material have been ignored entirely . I ...
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... appeared in law reviews with limited circulation . I am more in- terested in the content and impact of best - sellers like The Nine Old Men ( 1936 ) by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen , or The Brethren : Inside the Supreme Court ( 1979 ) ...
... appeared in law reviews with limited circulation . I am more in- terested in the content and impact of best - sellers like The Nine Old Men ( 1936 ) by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen , or The Brethren : Inside the Supreme Court ( 1979 ) ...
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... appeared in the Hartford , Connecticut , Times urged readers not to take for granted a document that so often had received perfunctory praise while simultaneously being slighted : " There is nothing to indicate that the Constitution and ...
... appeared in the Hartford , Connecticut , Times urged readers not to take for granted a document that so often had received perfunctory praise while simultaneously being slighted : " There is nothing to indicate that the Constitution and ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Russell Fraser Limited preview - 2017 |
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Michael G. Kammen Limited preview - 2006 |
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