The Original Compromise
What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking
What were the Founding Fathers really thinking when they gathered in the Pennsylvania State House to draft the United States Constitution? When answering this question, most have relied on The Federalist Papers, which was first published in book form after the close of the Convention, in 1788. To this day, the book's status is sacrosanct for most Americans. Yet as David Brian Robertson shows, the Papers represented one side of the debate and does not fully capturethe political sensibilities that produced the U.S. Constitution. Robertson, drawing from the full range of contemporary sources and not just the Papers, provides a truly authorita…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-068615-4
- EAN: 9780190686154
- Produktnummer: 23990485
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.0 cm 496 g
- Gewicht: 496
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
David Brian Robertson is Curator's Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He is the author of The Constitution and America's Destiny and Federalism and the Making of America.
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