Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... became a fecund time for constitutional debates , intensified by the 1987 nomination of Judge Robert Bork to serve as an associate jus- tice on the U.S. Supreme Court . I participated in those " discus- Introduction to the Transaction ...
... became a fecund time for constitutional debates , intensified by the 1987 nomination of Judge Robert Bork to serve as an associate jus- tice on the U.S. Supreme Court . I participated in those " discus- Introduction to the Transaction ...
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... became a hero in the late nineteenth - century legal codification movement that sought to replace the chaos of the common law with simpler comprehen- sive codes . He made the following declaration in 1879 : The Constitution of the ...
... became a hero in the late nineteenth - century legal codification movement that sought to replace the chaos of the common law with simpler comprehen- sive codes . He made the following declaration in 1879 : The Constitution of the ...
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... became applicable to the states as well as to the federal gov- ernment — a process that began slowly in the mid - 1920s , remained highly controversial among jurists and constitutional scholars during the 1940s , and was not completed ...
... became applicable to the states as well as to the federal gov- ernment — a process that began slowly in the mid - 1920s , remained highly controversial among jurists and constitutional scholars during the 1940s , and was not completed ...
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... became a recurrent theme in John Marshall's major decisions and a basic premise in Joseph Story's Commentaries ( 1833 ) : " The constitution is the will , the deliberate will , of the people . James Bryce echoed this fiction in The ...
... became a recurrent theme in John Marshall's major decisions and a basic premise in Joseph Story's Commentaries ( 1833 ) : " The constitution is the will , the deliberate will , of the people . James Bryce echoed this fiction in The ...
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... became a standard designation , though sometimes used interchangeably with " instrument . " 59 It did not linger for so long on account of inertia , but because it served to rationalize particular psychological needs and partisan ...
... became a standard designation , though sometimes used interchangeably with " instrument . " 59 It did not linger for so long on account of inertia , but because it served to rationalize particular psychological needs and partisan ...
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 |
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Michael G. Kammen Limited preview - 2006 |
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