Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... document to ratification to creation of the Bill of Rights in the First Congress ) . Prime examples of Genesis include Jack R. Rakove's Pulitzer Prize- winning , Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution ...
... document to ratification to creation of the Bill of Rights in the First Congress ) . Prime examples of Genesis include Jack R. Rakove's Pulitzer Prize- winning , Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution ...
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... document , so essential to the lives of all Americans , is para- doxically cherished but misunderstood . So many citizens assertively invoke the Constitution ( referring to " my rights " ) , yet so few actu- ally know what the text ...
... document , so essential to the lives of all Americans , is para- doxically cherished but misunderstood . So many citizens assertively invoke the Constitution ( referring to " my rights " ) , yet so few actu- ally know what the text ...
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... document . Curiously enough , that lament has usually been uttered by its most ardent devotees . As James M. Beck , then Solicitor General of the United States , observed in 1924 ( with a wistful blend of pride and realism ) : " the ...
... document . Curiously enough , that lament has usually been uttered by its most ardent devotees . As James M. Beck , then Solicitor General of the United States , observed in 1924 ( with a wistful blend of pride and realism ) : " the ...
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... document that so often had received perfunctory praise while simultaneously being slighted : " There is nothing to indicate that the Constitution and the pre- amble thereof are to be read only at Fourth of July meetings , convocations ...
... document that so often had received perfunctory praise while simultaneously being slighted : " There is nothing to indicate that the Constitution and the pre- amble thereof are to be read only at Fourth of July meetings , convocations ...
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... document was the most perfect instrument of govern- ment ever contrived . . . . " Hamilton then elaborated several additional points , all of them germane , and the final one a slightly opaque anticipation of my central theme in this ...
... document was the most perfect instrument of govern- ment ever contrived . . . . " Hamilton then elaborated several additional points , all of them germane , and the final one a slightly opaque anticipation of my central theme in this ...
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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