March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United ...
 A slightly skewed perspective: The completeness and comprehensiveness of this volume is commendable, however, there are some things that detract from its overall value as a text. Reading it, it is very easy to pick up the authors' blatant partisanship, [... more]
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COLONIAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
Superb resource for those studying the Constitution's roots.: Donald S. Lutz, professor of political science at the University of Houston, has long studied the colonial antecedents and development of American constitutionalism. In this fine documentary [... more]
$20.00
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The Anti-Federalists: Selected Writings and Speeches ...
Finest Source of Genuinely American Pol. Thought Available: To begin with, I wish all to understand that the title to this Review is in itself controversial. The "Finest Source" of "Genuinely AMERICAN Political Thought Available" will [... more]
$35.00
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We the People : The Economic Origins of the Constitution ...
The Debunker Debunked: Here's why this book was written: In 1913, Columbia University History Professor, Charles Beard, published "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution." Beard's thesis was straight out of Karl Marx: The US [... more]
$29.95
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We the People: Volume 2, Transformations
Amazon.com Review: In the second volume of a projected trilogy that seeks to provide the history of constitutional law in the U.S., Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman turns his attention to two periods: the post-Civil War era and the New Deal. Ackerman's [... more]
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Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. ...
Deservedly a prize winner!: This great book and Great Expectations: The U.S. 1945-1974, by James T. Patterson, were the co-winners of the 1997 Bancroft History Prize. I found everything in this book good reading and I learned a lot I did not know about [... more]
$24.95
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The Oxford Guide to United State Supreme Court Decisions
Amazon.com Review: Kermit L. Hall, Dean of the College of Humanities, Executive Dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, and Professor of History and Law at Ohio State University, is well versed in American constitutional and legal history, and has [... more]
$35.00
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The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, ...
Constitutional History as it Really Happened: David Currie, a (beloved) professor at the University of Chicago Law School and perhaps the nation's foremost constitutional historians, launched this project to explain how the Constitution has been [... more]
$40.00
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The Return of George Sutherland
A near-masterpiece of revisionist constitutional history: Despite the fact that constitutional historians rank George Sutherland among the 'near-greats" of the Supreme Court, the first-and only -Supreme Court Justice from Utah has been largely [... more]
$33.95
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Vital Remnants: America's Founding and the Western Tradition
Vital Remnants explains America's Constitutional origins: There is a palpable fear that America has lost its way, and perhaps even been untrue to itself. Examples of this loss abound, from school violence to a youth culture nihilism. "Vital Remnants, [... more]
$24.95
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of ...
Amazon.com Review: Imagine, for a preposterous moment, that 55 national leaders convened to write a document to guide the country for hundreds of years. It seems unlikely--given that our current contingent of so-called leaders can't agree on how to [... more]
$35.00
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God on Trial: Landmark Cases from America's Religious ...
One Nation Under a Constitution: Peter Irons has more than proven himself as an exciting and knowledged writer on the Supreme Court. His book "People's History of the Supreme Court" was a very entertaining and astute (albeit politically slanted) [... more]
$16.00
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