Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... tion of a Strong and True Union , by Violet Oakley ( 1917 ) . President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge , Speaker of the House Freder- ick H. Gillett , Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam , and others at the dedication of the Shrine of the ...
... tion of a Strong and True Union , by Violet Oakley ( 1917 ) . President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge , Speaker of the House Freder- ick H. Gillett , Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam , and others at the dedication of the Shrine of the ...
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... tion since then , both historical and theoretical in nature , these works have tended to concentrate on what might be called Gen- esis and Revelation : first , conflicting interpretations of what the Framers had in mind during 1787-89 ...
... tion since then , both historical and theoretical in nature , these works have tended to concentrate on what might be called Gen- esis and Revelation : first , conflicting interpretations of what the Framers had in mind during 1787-89 ...
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... tion Centennial Commission of 1886-87 ( 2,200 items in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ) ; the records of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission of 1935-39 ( sixteen cartons in the National Archives ) ; the extraordinary ...
... tion Centennial Commission of 1886-87 ( 2,200 items in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ) ; the records of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission of 1935-39 ( sixteen cartons in the National Archives ) ; the extraordinary ...
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... tion was every word that I was permitted to utter the words being those which guarantee " freedom of speech and of the press , and the right of the people peaceably to assemble , and to petition the govern- ment for the redress of ...
... tion was every word that I was permitted to utter the words being those which guarantee " freedom of speech and of the press , and the right of the people peaceably to assemble , and to petition the govern- ment for the redress of ...
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... tion as well as total absolution from errors of judgment and misinterpreta- tion that remain : Jane N. Garrett , my editor at Knopf for more than fifteen years ; Douglas S. Greenberg of Princeton University ; and Paul L. Murphy of the ...
... tion as well as total absolution from errors of judgment and misinterpreta- tion that remain : Jane N. Garrett , my editor at Knopf for more than fifteen years ; Douglas S. Greenberg of Princeton University ; and Paul L. Murphy of the ...
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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