Outlines of the Constitutional History of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Outlines of the Constitutional History of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Author: Luther Henry Porter

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780484239882

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Excerpt from Outlines of the Constitutional History of the United States This work is designed to be a beginning book for students, or general readers, who desire to learn some thing of the character and history of the Constitution of the United States. It is an elementary account of government in the United States. It gives a brief state ment of the main facts of our constitutional history but it does not profess to be a constitutional history in the full meaning of the term. For the general reader or for high-school use it prob ably covers sufficient ground. For the college student it attempts simply to point the way to extended study by a brief but connected review of the main facts, showing what is of chief importance for further study, and embracing those political documents which every student of our history must thoroughly understand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Notes on the Constitutional History, of the United States

Notes on the Constitutional History, of the United States

Author: Kenneth McIntosh

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1584777354

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Written at the end of the Reconstruction period, this is a stimulating and often insightful study of the early political history of the United States and its constitutional growth from the colonial period to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. It is particularly interesting for its balanced, coolly legalistic, discussion of the Civil War, the reconstruction amendments and the decisions of the Supreme Court under Taney, Chase and Waite. McIntosh was a Pittsburgh lawyer. Notes is based on a series of lectures presented to the students of Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA.


The Constitutional Convention

The Constitutional Convention

Author: James Madison

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307789209

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In 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so recently deposed. A truly national government was needed, one that could raise money, regulate commerce, and defend the states against foreign threats–without becoming as overbearing as England. So thirty-six-year-old James Madison believed. That summer, the Virginian was instrumental in organizing the Constitutional Convention, in which one of the world’s greatest documents would be debated, created, and signed. Inspired by a sense of history in the making, he kept the most extensive notes of any attendee.Now two esteemed scholars have made these minutes accessible to everyone. Presented with modern punctuation and spelling, judicious cuts, and helpful notes–plus fascinating background information on every delegate and an overview of the tumultuous times–here is the great drama of how the Constitution came to be, from the opening statements to the final votes. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also includes an Introduction and appendices from the authors.


An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition)

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0807013145

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New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.


The Constitutional Guide, Comprising the Constitution of the United States; With Notes and Commentaries from the Writings of Justice Story, Chancellor Kent, James Madison, and Other Distinguished American Citizens

The Constitutional Guide, Comprising the Constitution of the United States; With Notes and Commentaries from the Writings of Justice Story, Chancellor Kent, James Madison, and Other Distinguished American Citizens

Author: R. K. Moulton

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1584777540

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A Jacksonian-Era Primer on the U.S. Constitution. Originally published: New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1834. v, 147 pp. Dedicated to the "People of the United States," this is a layman's edition of the U.S. Constitution published during the Jackson era, a time of greatly expanded male suffrage and wider participation in public affairs. As the sub-title indicates, the text is annotated with excerpts from the writings of James Madison, Joseph Story and "other distinguished American citizens." The annotations offer an idea of how the Constitution was understood at this time, and form a handy digest of important commentaries linked to the passages they analyze. Reprint of the first edition.


Poems of American History

Poems of American History

Author: Various

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 1566

ISBN-13:

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The book "Poems of American History" is filled with hundreds of poems written from the within, on the spot, and those written long afterward. This book contains poems of ancient and historical relevance. It describes events that led to the discovery of America before the breakout of the First World War in 1914.