Author: United States. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Appendix A : supplementary records ; Appendix B : the delegates to the convention, their credentials and attendance ; Appendix C : the Virginia plan ; Appendix D : the Pinckney plan ; Appendix E : the New Jersey plan ; Appendix F : the Hamilton plan ; Index by clauses of the Constitution ; General index
Author: United States. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Appendix A : supplementary records ; Appendix B : the delegates to the convention, their credentials and attendance ; Appendix C : the Virginia plan ; Appendix D : the Pinckney plan ; Appendix E : the New Jersey plan ; Appendix F : the Hamilton plan ; Index by clauses of the Constitution ; General index
Author: United States. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Edited by Max Farrand
Author: United StatesAfter the People Vote
Author: Norman J. OrnsteinPublisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The new edition of this popular guide examines how the electoral college and postelection processes work and includes a short history of contested elections.
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
Author: United States. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Our American Government
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Committee on House Administration is pleased to present this revised book on our United States Government. This publication continues to be a popular introductory guide for American citizens and those of other countries who seek a greater understanding of our heritage of democracy. The question-and-answer format covers a broad range of topics dealing with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our Government as well as the electoral process and the role of political parties.--Foreword.
The Education of John Adams
Author: Richard B. BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199740232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's 2003 biography Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. As with Bernstein's other work (e.g., The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction), it is a clear, scholarly, concise, well-written, and well-researched account of Adams's life, career, and thought addressing anyone seeking to learn more about him.
Toward an American Revolution
Author: Gerald John FresiaPublisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896082977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In simple direct language, Jerry Fresia reveals the true intent of our "Founding Fathers" who designed the Constitution to protect their property and ensure that the poorer majority would have no real voice in political affairs. Fresia reveals the Founders' fears of "too much" democracy, why the Constitution was opposed by most Americans, and how its ratification was gained through deception and physical coercion. Toward an American Revolution shows how the illegal wars, domestic repression, and economic inequity of late twentieth century America are not incongruous with our Constitutional design. Book jacket.
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America: 1638–1870
Author: W.E.B. Du BoisPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026883780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources, i.e., national, State, and colonial statutes, Congressional documents, reports of societies, personal narratives, etc. The collection of laws available for this research was, I think, nearly complete; on the other hand, facts and statistics bearing on the economic side of the study have been difficult to find, and my conclusions are consequently liable to modification from this source. The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and unscientific narrowness of view on the other. While I could not hope entirely to overcome such a difficulty, I nevertheless trust that I have succeeded in rendering this monograph a small contribution to the scientific study of slavery and the American Negro.' William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868 – 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.