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1) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Language
English
Description
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of...
Series
Legal classics library
World constitutions illustrated
Senate document volume 64th Congress, 2nd session, no. 695
World constitutions illustrated
Senate document volume 64th Congress, 2nd session, no. 695
Publisher
Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
1917.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages).
Language
English
5) From independence to the U.S. Constitution: reconsidering the critical period of American history
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume re-examines the 1780s in American history, a crucial period when the Revolutionary generation worked out new political, economic, and social parameters that came to define the subsequent trajectory of the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book deals with important issues of constitutionalism in the American Revolution. It ranges from the imperial debate that led to the Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in 1787. It includes a discussion of slavery and constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the major tripartite institutions of government, and the demarcation between...
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