Author: George Ticknor CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Constitutional History of the United States from Their Declaration of Independence to the Close of the Civil War
Author: George Ticknor CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1786-1870
Author: United States. Bureau of Rolls and LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Constitutional History of the United States from Their Declaration of Independence to the Close of Their Civil War
Author: George Ticknor CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1786-1870: Letters and papers relating to the Constitution, to July 31, 17788
Author: United States. Bureau of Rolls and LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
Book Description
The American Catalogue of Books Or, English Guide to American Literature... with Especial Reference to Works of Interest to Great Britain...
Author: The American Catalogue of Books
Author: The American Catalogue of Books, Or English Guide to American Literature, Giving the Full Titles of Original Works Published in the United States Since the Year 1800, with Especial Reference to Works of Interest to Great Britain. With the Prices at which They May be Obtained in London
Author: Sampson LOW (the Elder.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Men Who Made the Constitution
Author: John R. VilePublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810888653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated the debates, the exchanges were also shaped by the dynamic personalities of the fifty-five delegates who attended from twelve of the thirteen states. In The Men Who Made the Constitution, constitutional scholar John R. Vileexplores the lives and contributions of all delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, including those who left before the Convention ended and those who stayed until the last day but refused to sign. Each biography records the delegate’s birth, education, previous positions or public service roles, homes, family life, life after the Convention, death, and resting place. Drawing directly from Convention debates and a vast array of secondary sources, Vile covers the positions of each delegate at the Convention on both major and minor issues and describes his service on committees and afterward at state ratification conventions. The Men Who Made the Constitution includes a bibliography of key sources, engravings of delegates for whom portraits were created, a quiz on key facts, and a transcript of the Constitution of the United States. This work is the perfect reference for students and scholars, as well as professional and amateur historians, of colonial and early American history, constitutional law, and American jurisprudence.
Bibliography and Reference List of the History and Literature Relating to the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States 1787-8
Author: Paul Leicester FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Peace Pact
Author: David C. HendricksonPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700614931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
That New England might invade Virginia is inconceivable today. But interstate rivalries and the possibility of intersectional war loomed large in the thinking of the Framers who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to put on paper the ideas that would bind the federal union together. At the end of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin rejoiced that the document would "astonish our enemies, who are waiting to hear with confidence . . . that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats." Usually dismissed as hyperbole, this and similar remarks by other Founders help us to understand the core concerns that shaped their conception of the Union. By reexamining the creation of the federal system of the United States from a perspective that yokes diplomacy with constitutionalism, Hendrickson's study, according to Karl Walling, "introduces a new way to think about what is familiar to us." This ground breaking book, then, takes a fresh look at the formative years of American constitutionalism and diplomacy. It tells the story of how thirteen colonies became independent states and found themselves grappling with the classic problems of international cooperation, and it explores the intellectual milieu within which that problem was considered. The founding generation, Hendrickson argues, developed a sophisticated science of international politics relevant both to the construction of their own union and to the foreign relations of "the several states in the union of the empire." The centrality of this discourse, he contends, must severely qualify conventional depictions of early American political thought as simply "liberal" or "republican." Hendrickson also takes issue with conventional accounts of early American foreign policy as "unilateralist" or "isolationist" and insists that the founding generation belonged to and made distinguished contributions to the constitutional tradition in diplomacy, the antecedent of twentieth-century internationalism. He describes an American system of states riven by deep sectional animosities and powerful loyalties to colonies and states (often themselves described as "nations") and explains why in such a milieu the creation of a durable union often appeared to be a quixotic enterprise. The book culminates in a consideration of the making of the federal Constitution, here styled as a peace pact or experiment in international cooperation. Peace Pact is an important book that promises to revolutionize our understanding of the era of revolution and constitution-making. Written in a lucid and accessible style, the book is an excellent introduction to the American founding and its larger significance in American and world history.