Author: Pauline Maier
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684868555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years.
Author: Merrill Jensen
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher.
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Author: Merrill Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Author: Merrill Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Michael J. Klarman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019994203X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
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Flaws in the Articles of Confederation -- Economic turmoil in the states and the road to Philadelphia -- The Constitutional Convention -- Slavery and the Constitutional Constitution -- Critics of the Constitution: the Antifederalists -- The ratifying contest -- The Bill of Rights -- Conclusion
Author: Merrill Jensen
Publisher: Madison House Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Stephen D. Solomon
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466879394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other. Uninhibited dissent provided a distinctly American meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press at a time when the legal doctrine inherited from England allowed prosecutions of those who criticized government. Solomon discovers the wellspring in our revolutionary past for today's satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and protests like flag burning and street demonstrations. From the inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the political theater of Alexander McDougall, the liberty tree protests of Ebenezer McIntosh and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Solomon shares the stories of the dissenters who created the American idea of the liberty of thought. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America.
Author: Brooke Barbier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674271777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke Barbier explores Hancock’s position as a revolutionary who nonetheless understood the value of compromise. By shunning political extremes, Hancock became hugely influential in the infant United States.
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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