Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... wrote a public letter to Louis D. Oaks , the chief of police — a letter that Sinclair reprinted in his autobiography . Some of the most pertinent passages follow . Louis D. Oaks , Chief of Police , Los Angeles Pasadena , California ...
... wrote a public letter to Louis D. Oaks , the chief of police — a letter that Sinclair reprinted in his autobiography . Some of the most pertinent passages follow . Louis D. Oaks , Chief of Police , Los Angeles Pasadena , California ...
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... wrote to a col- league : " In order to understand the development of America it is neces- sary to study something more than the political and constitutional history . " Subsequently , others called for constitutional history to marry ...
... wrote to a col- league : " In order to understand the development of America it is neces- sary to study something more than the political and constitutional history . " Subsequently , others called for constitutional history to marry ...
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... wrote in 1791. " Our credit both at home & abroad equal to our wishes . So that on the whole we are in as prosperous a way as a nation can well be . This shews the advantage of the changeableness of a constitution . Had our former one ...
... wrote in 1791. " Our credit both at home & abroad equal to our wishes . So that on the whole we are in as prosperous a way as a nation can well be . This shews the advantage of the changeableness of a constitution . Had our former one ...
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... wrote in 1914 that " the provisions of the Constitu- tion are not mathematical formulas ... they are organic living institu- tions " ; Cardozo , who observed in 1925 that " a Constitution has an organic life " ; and Frankfurter , who ...
... wrote in 1914 that " the provisions of the Constitu- tion are not mathematical formulas ... they are organic living institu- tions " ; Cardozo , who observed in 1925 that " a Constitution has an organic life " ; and Frankfurter , who ...
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... wrote , this sounds like a reasonable assessment . One Progressive reformer , looking back from 1925 to the first years of the twentieth century , explained that as a youth he had " cherished ... the marvellous prevision of the makers ...
... wrote , this sounds like a reasonable assessment . One Progressive reformer , looking back from 1925 to the first years of the twentieth century , explained that as a youth he had " cherished ... the marvellous prevision of the makers ...
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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