Liberty and Union: A Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780415892827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 496 str.

McManus Edgar J.; Helfman Tara

Opis

This, the first of two volumes of 'Liberty and Union', is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Anglo-American origins of the Constitution through the colonial and antebellum periods, to the Civil War and the consequent restructuring of the nation. Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, it successfully unites thorough chronological coverage with a thematic approach, offering critical analysis of core constitutional history topics, set in the political, social, and economic context that made them constitutional issues in the first place.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The English Connection 2. A Legacy Transported and Transformed 3. Independence and Nationhood 4. A More Perfect Union 5. Launching the New Government 6. Jeffersonian Republicanism 7. John Marshall and Judicial Nationalism 8. Majority Rule and Sectional Rights 9. More Power to the States 10. Slavery and the Constitution 11. The Crisis of the Union 12. Reconstructing the Nation

O autorze

Edgar McManus, Tara Helfman