Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... A. Beard more than two millen- nia later . The most pertinent definition that I have encountered was prepared by Walton H. Hamilton in 1931. Although superb in several re- spects , it is also aphoristic , even sardonic ,. xxiii ...
... A. Beard more than two millen- nia later . The most pertinent definition that I have encountered was prepared by Walton H. Hamilton in 1931. Although superb in several re- spects , it is also aphoristic , even sardonic ,. xxiii ...
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... prepare a substantial , original , serious yet engaging work for nonspecialists . A few years ago , Charles E. Wy- zanski , senior federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston , offered this observation : " There is always the ...
... prepare a substantial , original , serious yet engaging work for nonspecialists . A few years ago , Charles E. Wy- zanski , senior federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston , offered this observation : " There is always the ...
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... prepared the index with thorough pro- fessionalism and dispatch . I am fortunate to have had their help . Various institutions , seminars , and conferences supplied opportunities to send up trial balloons . I am grateful for the ...
... prepared the index with thorough pro- fessionalism and dispatch . I am fortunate to have had their help . Various institutions , seminars , and conferences supplied opportunities to send up trial balloons . I am grateful for the ...
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... prepared address for the Golden Jubilee of the Constitution , Adams acknowledged that the relationship between pros- perity and the Constitution " may perhaps be differently estimated by spec- ulative minds . " A fragment written by ...
... prepared address for the Golden Jubilee of the Constitution , Adams acknowledged that the relationship between pros- perity and the Constitution " may perhaps be differently estimated by spec- ulative minds . " A fragment written by ...
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... preparing the Confederate Constitution . Throughout the Civil War , Democrats and Republicans in the North disagreed about many matters but vied with one another in expressing reverence. 29 The Problem of Constitutionalism in American ...
... preparing the Confederate Constitution . Throughout the Civil War , Democrats and Republicans in the North disagreed about many matters but vied with one another in expressing reverence. 29 The Problem of Constitutionalism in American ...
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 |
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