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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica, Or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature ... with Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences, and Other Extensive Improvements and Additions; Including the Late Supplement, a General Index, and Numerous Engravings
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
The Federalist Papers
Author: Alexander HamiltonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528785878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
A History of the Articles of Religion ... By C. H.
Author: Charles HARDWICK (Archdeacon of Ely.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A history of the Articles of religion. To which is added a series of documents, from A.D.1536 to A.D.1615; together with illustrations from contemporary sources
Author: Charles HardwickPublisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The English Cyclopaedia. (Geography. - Natural History. - Biography. - Arts and Sciences) ...
Author: EncyclopaediasThe Encyclopaedia Britannica Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature
Author: “The” Athenaeum
Author: The History of the English Electoral Law in the Middle Ages
Author: Ludwig RiessPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108010695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A pioneering account of the medieval English electorate, published in German in 1885 and in English in 1940.
The Second Creation
Author: Jonathan GienappPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067498952X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A stunning revision of our founding document’s evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution? Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was 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 in the decade after its adoption—a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation. When the Constitution first appeared, it was shrouded in uncertainty. Not only was its meaning unclear, but so too was its essential nature. Was the American Constitution a written text, or something else? Was it a legal text? Was it finished or unfinished? What rules would guide its interpretation? Who would adjudicate competing readings? As political leaders put the Constitution to work, none of these questions had answers. Through vigorous debates they confronted the document’s uncertainty, and—over time—how these leaders imagined the Constitution radically changed. They had begun trying to fix, or resolve, an imperfect document, but they ended up fixing, or cementing, a very particular notion of the Constitution as a distinctively textual and historical artifact circumscribed in space and time. This means that some of the Constitution’s most definitive characteristics, ones which are often treated as innate, were only added later and were thus contingent and optional.
Author: Jean Louis de Lolme