Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents InterpretedStephen L. Schechter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 01 նոյ, 1991 թ. - 472 էջ Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays that explain what they mean, why they were written, and why they are important today. Each key document is accompanied by an interpretive essay written by a contemporary scholar. These essays focus on the importance of each frame of government and include commentaries on why they are meaningful today. Intended to help readers learn how to read and understand these documents, the book is also a handy reference and a strong introduction to the development of political thought and the debates surrounding the formation of the state governments and the federal union. |
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... first con- sists of constitution - like community agreements and city charters which founded civil communities ; the second embraces colonial charters and state constitutions ; and the third includes attempts to establish a union of ...
... first con- sists of constitution - like community agreements and city charters which founded civil communities ; the second embraces colonial charters and state constitutions ; and the third includes attempts to establish a union of ...
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... First , this writer is a native New Yorker and most familiar with the New York founding experience . Second , this ... first covenant struck in the New World and because it provided a model and framework for the extension of the Puritan ...
... First , this writer is a native New Yorker and most familiar with the New York founding experience . Second , this ... first covenant struck in the New World and because it provided a model and framework for the extension of the Puritan ...
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... first . As Thomas E. Burke shows in his commentary , the importance of the Albany Congress is that its vote on a plan of union " represented the consensus of opinion of the most representative and politically capable and experienced ...
... first . As Thomas E. Burke shows in his commentary , the importance of the Albany Congress is that its vote on a plan of union " represented the consensus of opinion of the most representative and politically capable and experienced ...
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... first to pro- vide explicitly for a separation of powers among the legislative , exec- utive , and judicial branches , and which served as a model for most of the state constitutions drafted in the late 1780s and afterward . This ...
... first to pro- vide explicitly for a separation of powers among the legislative , exec- utive , and judicial branches , and which served as a model for most of the state constitutions drafted in the late 1780s and afterward . This ...
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... first ten amendments to the federal Constitution.13 The reformulation of the American constitutional system took nearly five years , from the calling of the Federal Convention by the Confederation Congress in February of 1787 to ...
... first ten amendments to the federal Constitution.13 The reformulation of the American constitutional system took nearly five years , from the calling of the Federal Convention by the Confederation Congress in February of 1787 to ...
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