The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution

Author: David F. Forte

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 1621572684

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A landmark work of more than one hundred scholars, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution is a unique line-by-line analysis explaining every clause of America's founding charter and its contemporary meaning. In this fully revised second edition, leading scholars in law, history, and public policy offer more than two hundred updated and incisive essays on every clause of the Constitution. From the stirring words of the Preamble to the Twenty-seventh Amendment, you will gain new insights into the ideas that made America, important debates that continue from our Founding, and the Constitution's true meaning for our nation.

Creating the Constitution
Creating the Constitution

Author: Thornton Anderson

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0271071338

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Creating the Constitution presents a different interpretation of the Convention and the First Congress, derived largely from a close reading of Farrand's Records and the Annals of Congress. Among its special features are a critical perspective on the Framers, an examination of Court Whig influence on the Federalists, the identification of a third group—the state Federalists—between the nationalists and states' righters, and a view of the First Congress as distorting the aims of the Convention.

Roots of the Republic
Roots of the Republic

Author: Stephen L. Schechter

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780945612193

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Published for the New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution. Eighteen highly readable essays focus on the most important documents of America's colonial and revolutionary past, accompanied by the complete text of each document, from the Mayflower Compact to the Bill of Rights. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Law of American State Constitutions
The Law of American State Constitutions

Author: Robert F. Williams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-05-05

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0190068809

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The second edition of The Law of American State Constitutions provides complete coverage of the legal doctrines surrounding, applying to, and arising from American state constitutions and their judicial interpretation. Drawing on examples from specific states, Professors Williams and Friedman analyze the nature and function of state constitutions in contrast to the federal Constitution, including rights, separation of powers, issues of interpretation, and the processes for amendment and revision. In this edition, Williams and Friedman focus on recent developments, including the state constitutional dimensions of same-sex marriage and the reaction of state courts to U.S. Supreme Court decision making. This edition of The Law of American State Constitutions remains an important analytical tool that explains the unique character and the range of interpretive approaches to these constitutions. It covers the structure of state governments under state constitutions as well as the distribution of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Like the first edition, this edition presents a complete picture of state constitutional law and the attributes and features that make this body of law so distinctive.

Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768
Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768

Author: Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.)

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9780871692269

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When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. Bell records the early years of the Society through sketches of its first members, those elected between 1743 and 1769. This volume includes biographies of some of the Society's best known members such as Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John Bartram, Benjamin Rush, John Dickinson, Thomas Hopkinson and many lesser known merchants, artisans, farmers, physicians, lawyers and clergymen with familiar surnames such as Biddle, Colden, and Morris. Illustrations.

The Founding of a Nation
The Founding of a Nation

Author: Merrill Jensen

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 9780872207059

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"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world." --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University