Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... interpretations of what the Framers had in mind during 1787-89 ( from writing the document to ratification to creation ... interpretation " faith- ful to the times and intentions of the Founders ? Because the Four- teenth Amendment has ...
... interpretations of what the Framers had in mind during 1787-89 ( from writing the document to ratification to creation ... interpretation " faith- ful to the times and intentions of the Founders ? Because the Four- teenth Amendment has ...
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... interpreted is no easy matter . David Dudley Field was an eminent New England lawyer ( 1805-94 ) who became a hero in the late nineteenth - century legal codification movement that sought to replace the chaos of the common law with ...
... interpreted is no easy matter . David Dudley Field was an eminent New England lawyer ( 1805-94 ) who became a hero in the late nineteenth - century legal codification movement that sought to replace the chaos of the common law with ...
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... the assumptions of slave- holders admitted of an opposite interpretation . " Ultimately he concluded that the Constitution " might be whichever the people pleased. 5 The Problem of Constitutionalism in American Culture.
... the assumptions of slave- holders admitted of an opposite interpretation . " Ultimately he concluded that the Constitution " might be whichever the people pleased. 5 The Problem of Constitutionalism in American Culture.
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... interpretation certainly has produced a labyrinth through which the judge would find great difficulty in threading ... interpret and politicians construe the Constitution have , in a sense , become an extension of it . They thereby ...
... interpretation certainly has produced a labyrinth through which the judge would find great difficulty in threading ... interpret and politicians construe the Constitution have , in a sense , become an extension of it . They thereby ...
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... interpret the Consti- tution according to the Darwinian principle ; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine . " 56 Between Lowell's formulation and Wilson's we find lesser lights illu ...
... interpret the Consti- tution according to the Darwinian principle ; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine . " 56 Between Lowell's formulation and Wilson's we find lesser lights illu ...
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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