Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... School ; and to a symposium co - sponsored by the Constitution Study Group of the National Archives and the American Bar Association's Commission on Public Un- derstanding about the Law , held in Washington , D.C. , on March 14 , 1985 ...
... School ; and to a symposium co - sponsored by the Constitution Study Group of the National Archives and the American Bar Association's Commission on Public Un- derstanding about the Law , held in Washington , D.C. , on March 14 , 1985 ...
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... School- books of that era often stated that the Constitution had been divinely in- spired . Their authors could not refer to the Constitution without a choral vocabulary of " revered , " " glorious , " and " sacred . ' 2 Those very same ...
... School- books of that era often stated that the Constitution had been divinely in- spired . Their authors could not refer to the Constitution without a choral vocabulary of " revered , " " glorious , " and " sacred . ' 2 Those very same ...
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... school flag salute is upheld against religious scruples in the name of democratic self - education and national unity ; three years later the decision is overruled . An eight justice majority concurs in an opinion which apparently ...
... school flag salute is upheld against religious scruples in the name of democratic self - education and national unity ; three years later the decision is overruled . An eight justice majority concurs in an opinion which apparently ...
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... schools . Textbooks have tended to be unclear , superficial , inconsistent , and inaccurate . Take as an example The Child's History of the United States from the Earliest Time to the Present Day , by one Charles Morris , Ll.D ...
... schools . Textbooks have tended to be unclear , superficial , inconsistent , and inaccurate . Take as an example The Child's History of the United States from the Earliest Time to the Present Day , by one Charles Morris , Ll.D ...
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... School , put it tersely in 1984 : " The Court is a secretive institution . " 79 Friedman may exaggerate a bit , but the basic reality cannot be de- nied . Whenever the Court wears an inscrutable mask , for whatever rea- sons and to ...
... School , put it tersely in 1984 : " The Court is a secretive institution . " 79 Friedman may exaggerate a bit , but the basic reality cannot be de- nied . Whenever the Court wears an inscrutable mask , for whatever rea- sons and to ...
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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