Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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Page xiv
... fact that our federal Constitution is not only brief but deliber- ately difficult to amend . It stands as a blueprint against which the performance of government and ordinary laws are measured . That would seem to be the very essence of ...
... fact that our federal Constitution is not only brief but deliber- ately difficult to amend . It stands as a blueprint against which the performance of government and ordinary laws are measured . That would seem to be the very essence of ...
Page xv
... Facts of Reconstruction : Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin ( Baton Rouge , 1991 ) . Semonche's organizing motif or theme concerns the Court and the Constitution as key ingredients in American civil religion . His chapter titles are ...
... Facts of Reconstruction : Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin ( Baton Rouge , 1991 ) . Semonche's organizing motif or theme concerns the Court and the Constitution as key ingredients in American civil religion . His chapter titles are ...
Page xvii
... fact that they are nonprofessionals : not lawyers , nor judges , nor professors of constitutional law . Even though our libraries are filled with books and journals telling us what the specialists think , we do not have a single study ...
... fact that they are nonprofessionals : not lawyers , nor judges , nor professors of constitutional law . Even though our libraries are filled with books and journals telling us what the specialists think , we do not have a single study ...
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... fact that one of your men betrayed your plot to my wife , I am now in position to answer your formal statement to the public , that I am " more dangerous than 4,000 I.W.W. " I thank you for this com- pliment , for to be dangerous to ...
... fact that one of your men betrayed your plot to my wife , I am now in position to answer your formal statement to the public , that I am " more dangerous than 4,000 I.W.W. " I thank you for this com- pliment , for to be dangerous to ...
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... fact that , after all , the success of the Constitution depended upon a people who would be politically recep- tive .... I wanted to raise the serious question whether , as a people , we still have that political receptivity . ' 194 995 ...
... fact that , after all , the success of the Constitution depended upon a people who would be politically recep- tive .... I wanted to raise the serious question whether , as a people , we still have that political receptivity . ' 194 995 ...
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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