Author: Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1450928579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Bridges: Shaping the Constitution
Author: Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
ISBN: 1450928579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Tom Paine's Iron Bridge
Author: Edward G GrayPublisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9781606188996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, illuminating work, Paine was a builder. He had a clear vision of success for his adopted country. It was embodied in an architectural project that he spent a decade planning: an iron bridge to span the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. When Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was thriving as America's largest port. But the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city's continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania's backcountry farms and its port on the Delaware. The iron bridge was Paine's solution. The bridge was part of Paine's answer to the central political challenge of the new nation: how to sustain a republic as large and as geographically fragmented as the United States. The iron construction was Paine's brilliant response to the age-old challenge of bridge technology: how to build a structure strong enough to withstand the constant battering of water, ice, and wind. The convergence of political and technological design in Paine's plan was Enlightenment genius. And Paine drew other giants of the period as patrons: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and for a time his great ideological opponent, Edmund Burke. Paine's dream ultimately was a casualty of the vicious political crosscurrents of revolution and the American penchant for bridges of cheap, plentiful wood. But his innovative iron design became the model for bridge construction in Britain as it led the world into the industrial revolution.
The Democratic Constitution
Author: Neal DevinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198038224
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in the past have recognized that the legislative branch plays a significant role in determining structural issues, such as separation of powers and federalism, but stopped there--claiming that only courts had the independence and expertise to safeguard individual and minority rights. In this readable and engaging narrative, the authors identify the nuts and bolts of the national dialogue and relate succinct examples of how elected officials and the general public often dominate the Supreme Court in defining the Constitution's meaning. Making use of case studies on race, privacy, federalism, war powers, speech, and religion, Devins and Fisher demonstrate how elected officials uphold individual rights in such areas as religious liberty and free speech as well as, and often better than, the courts. This fascinating debunking of judicial supremacy argues that nonjudicial contributions to constitutional interpretation make the Constitution more stable, more consistent with constitutional principles, and more protective of individual and minority rights.
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association
Author: American Railway Bridge and Building AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Uncertain Justice
Author: Laurence TribePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805099093
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An assessment of how the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is significantly influencing the nation's laws and reinterpreting the Constitution includes in-depth analysis of recent rulings and their implications.
The Congressional globe
Author: Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association
Author: American Railway Bridge and Building Association. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Southern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1912
Book Description
How Government Built America
Author: Sidney A. ShapiroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009489348
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
How Government Built America challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by highlighting the role government has played in partnering with markets to build the United States. Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain explore how markets can harm and fail the country, and how the government has addressed these extremes by restoring essential values to benefit all citizens. Without denying that individualism and small government are part of the national DNA, the authors demonstrate how democracy and a people pursuing communal interests are equally important. In highly engaging prose, the authors describe how the government, despite the complexity of markets, remains engaged in promoting economic prosperity, protecting people, and providing an economic safety net. Each chapter focuses on a historical figure, from Lincoln to FDR to Trump, to illustrate how the government-market mix has evolved over time. By understanding this history, readers can turn the national conversation back to what combination of government and markets will best serve the country.