The second creation : fixing the American Constitution in the founding era /

Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gienapp, Jonathan, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
Temas:
United States. > Constitution.
Constitution (United States)
Constitutional amendments > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Constitutional amendments
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reimagining the creation of the American Constitution
  • The uncertainty of written constitutionalism
  • Language and power
  • The unfinished Constitution
  • The sacred text
  • The rules of the Constitution
  • The "people's" Constitution
  • The apotheosis of the fixed Constitution
  • Epilogue: The endurance of fixity.

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