The Second Creation : : Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era /

The Second Creation : : Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era / / Jonathan Gienapp.

Americans widely believe that the U.S. Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Jonathan Gienapp recovers the unknown story of the Constitution’s second creation in the decade after its adoption—a story with explosive implications for current debates o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Gienapp, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (402 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Reimagining the Creation of the American Constitution
  • 1. The Uncertainty of Written Constitutionalism
  • 2. Language and Power
  • 3. The Unfinished Constitution
  • 4. The Sacred Text
  • 5. The Rules of the Constitution
  • 6. The “People’s” Constitution
  • 7. The Apotheosis of the Fixed Constitution
  • Epilogue: The Endurance of Fixity
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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