Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Words That Made UsCondition: NewSubtitle: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840ISBN-10: 0465096352EAN: 9780465096350ISBN: 9780465096350Publisher: Basic BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/27/2021Description: When the US Constitution won widespread popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of decades of passionate argument about legal and political first principles-a furious debate over the nature of government and the rights and duties of citizens that boiled over into Revolution. But ratification hardly ended America's constitutional conversation. For the next fifty years, both ordinary Americans and statesmen like George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson continued to wrestle with weighty constitutional questions, from the halls of government to the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be pushed beyond its original footprint? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? Where did Indian tribes fit into the picture? Women? Free blacks? What rule should the Constitution's then-weakest branch, led for more than thirty years by Chief Justice John Marshall, play in these resolving such questions? In The Words That Made Us, celebrated Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar tells the story of America's constitutional conversation during its first eighty years-from its birth in 1760 through the 1830s, when the last of America's early leaders died and bequeathed this boisterous and sophisticated conversation to posterity. Amar traces the threads of Constitutional discourse, uniting history and law in a vivid and sweeping narrative that seeks both to reveal this history anew and to make clear who was right and who was wrong on the biggest legal issues confronting early America. Without proper popular understanding of the Constitution, America and the world suffer. In The Words That Made Us, Amar offers an essential history of the Constitution's formative decades and an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to understand America's Constitution and its relevance today.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 242mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 64mmItem Weight: 1120gAuthor: Akhil Reed AmarGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Words That Made Us
Title: The Words That Made Us
Subtitle: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
ISBN-10: 0465096352
EAN: 9780465096350
ISBN: 9780465096350
Release Date: 05/27/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Words That Made Us : America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
Number of Pages: 832 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 2.5 in
Topic: Constitutional, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Constitutions
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Political Science, History
Item Weight: 39.9 Oz
Author: Akhil Reed Amar
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
