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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... Dutch cultures on the eve of the English invasion of New Netherland . By contrast , the New York City Charter of 1686 shows how , twenty years later , another local community was refounded by a royal charter that was the result of ...
... Dutch cultures on the eve of the English invasion of New Netherland . By contrast , the New York City Charter of 1686 shows how , twenty years later , another local community was refounded by a royal charter that was the result of ...
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... Dutch New Netherland and the Connecticut ( Hartford ) Colony . Revised with permission of the Center for the Study of Federalism , Temple Uni- versity , from Stephen L. Schechter , “ From Covenant to Constitution in American Po- litical ...
... Dutch New Netherland and the Connecticut ( Hartford ) Colony . Revised with permission of the Center for the Study of Federalism , Temple Uni- versity , from Stephen L. Schechter , “ From Covenant to Constitution in American Po- litical ...
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... Dutch surrender , King Charles II granted the former Dutch possessions to his brother James , the duke of York . In November 1664 , representatives of the Duke of York and the Colony of Connecticut fixed the border of the two colonies ...
... Dutch surrender , King Charles II granted the former Dutch possessions to his brother James , the duke of York . In November 1664 , representatives of the Duke of York and the Colony of Connecticut fixed the border of the two colonies ...
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... Dutch , and have chosen him for their cheife and he hath accepted it . " 2 Shortly thereafter , Ludlow returned to England and Fairfield's planned invasion was scrapped . Ten years later , just before the English invasion of New ...
... Dutch , and have chosen him for their cheife and he hath accepted it . " 2 Shortly thereafter , Ludlow returned to England and Fairfield's planned invasion was scrapped . Ten years later , just before the English invasion of New ...
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... Dutch , English , and New England communities over constitutional prin- ciples , and New York's precarious ability to compete with its neighbors in New England , New Jersey , and Pennsylvania . New York's Charter of Liberties took shape ...
... Dutch , English , and New England communities over constitutional prin- ciples , and New York's precarious ability to compete with its neighbors in New England , New Jersey , and Pennsylvania . New York's Charter of Liberties took shape ...
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