The Words that Made Us
America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholarWhen the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words tha…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-465-09636-7
- EAN: 9780465096367
- Produktnummer: 34681945
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 832 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University and the author of several books on constitutional law and history, including America's Constitution: A Biography and America's Unwritten Constitution. He lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut.
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