The People's Constitution 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union.

The story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution--the product of compromises and an artifact of its time--and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That's obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kowal, John F.
Otros Autores: Codrington III, Wilfred U.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: La Vergne : The New Press, 2021.
Temas:
Political Advocacy > Political Process.
LAW / General.
Constitutional amendments
Constitutional history
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Notes to the Reader
  • Introduction
  • 1 An Imperfect Constitution
  • 2 The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804)
  • 3 The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870)
  • 4 The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920)
  • 5 The New Deal-and the Amending Wave That Wasn't
  • 6 Thee Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971)
  • 7 The 1970s-and the Rights Revolution That Wasn't
  • 8 The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics
  • 9 The People's Constitution
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Notes
  • Image Credits
  • Index

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