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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"How do Americans state what they believe in, how their representative government works, and more? By writing it down! Investigate great documents that have shaped United States history, including the U.S. Constitution. Find out who wrote it, what it says, and why it remains important today. Read all about this remarkable document that helped form a nation. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This witty and highly relevant annotation of the Constitution of the United States is the go-to guide for Millennials and Gen Z-ers to the ins and outs of how our government really works. Essential for every conscientious voter in this upcoming presidential election season and for years to come
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From Illinois to Alabama, and from Florida to Utah, our laws and legal debates arise from distinctive local settings within our vast and varied nation. As the renowned scholar Akhil Amar explains, Abraham Lincoln's argument against the legality of succession can be traced to his Midwestern upbringing, just as a close look at the Florida legislature and state Supreme Court reveals the fundamental wrongness of the Bush v. Gore decision. Amar profiles...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution--and American history itself. -- Not only does Klarman capture the knife's-edge atmosphere of the convention, he populates his narrative with riveting and colorful stories. -- The Framers' Coup is more than a compendium of great stories, however, and the powerful...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony," he writes. Americans may venerate the Constitution, "but all...
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