The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence / / Jack N. Rakove.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rakove, Jack N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; A Note to the Reader --; Introduction --; The Declaration of Independence --; The U.S. Constitution --; Amendments to the Constitution --; A Calendar of Events --; Further Reading --; Credits --; Acknowledgments
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054479; 9783110442212; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054479?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jack N. Rakove.

Here in a beautifully bound cloth gift edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88), in which "We the People" forged a new nation and built the framework for our federal republic. Together with the Bill of Rights and the Civil War amendments, these documents constitute what James Madison called our "political scriptures," and have come to define us as a people. Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian serves as a guide to these texts, providing historical contexts and offering interpretive commentary.