Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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Page xii
... called Gen- esis and Revelation : first , conflicting interpretations of what the Framers had in mind during 1787-89 ( from writing the document to ratification to creation of the Bill of Rights in the First Congress ) . Prime examples ...
... called Gen- esis and Revelation : first , conflicting interpretations of what the Framers had in mind during 1787-89 ( from writing the document to ratification to creation of the Bill of Rights in the First Congress ) . Prime examples ...
Page xvii
... called biographies of the Constitution , and pertinent aspects of American legal history — no one has attempted to describe the place of the Constitution in the public consciousness and symbolic life of the American people ...
... called biographies of the Constitution , and pertinent aspects of American legal history — no one has attempted to describe the place of the Constitution in the public consciousness and symbolic life of the American people ...
Page xxv
... called for constitutional history to marry social history , with the latter as dominant partner . Eventually , in 1950 , an able historian urged us to regard constitutional history " as an aspect of in- tellectual history — that is ...
... called for constitutional history to marry social history , with the latter as dominant partner . Eventually , in 1950 , an able historian urged us to regard constitutional history " as an aspect of in- tellectual history — that is ...
Page xxvi
... 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 , hinges upon ...
... 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 , hinges upon ...
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... called the Constitution " the text of civil in- struction — the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust . " That is , those entrusted with responsibility for public affairs . More re- cently Associate Justice Owen J ...
... called the Constitution " the text of civil in- struction — the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust . " That is , those entrusted with responsibility for public affairs . More re- cently Associate Justice Owen J ...
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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