Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

Autor: Jack N Rakove

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Harvard University Press

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Here in a beautifully bound cloth gift edition are the two founding documents of the United States o...

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Autor

Jack N Rakove

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2012

Stránek

368

EAN

9780674066229

ISBN

0674066227

Enbook ID

01205166

Vydavatel

Harvard University Press

Hmotnost

390

Rozměry

140 x 179 x 22

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Here in a beautifully bound cloth gift edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88), in which "We the People" forged a new nation and built the framework for our federal republic. Together with the Bill of Rights and the Civil War amendments, these documents constitute what James Madison called our "political scriptures," and have come to define us as a people. Now a Pulitzer Prize--winning historian serves as a guide to these texts, providing historical contexts and offering interpretive commentary. In an introductory essay written for the general reader, Jack N. Rakove provides a narrative political account of how these documents came to be written. In his commentary on the Declaration of Independence, Rakove sets the historical context for a fuller appreciation of the important preamble and the list of charges leveled against the Crown. When he glosses the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the subsequent amendments, Rakove once again provides helpful historical background, targets language that has proven particularly difficult or controversial, and cites leading Supreme Court cases. A chronology of events provides a framework for understanding the road to Philadelphia. The general reader will not find a better, more helpful guide to our founding documents than Jack N. Rakove.

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