The people's constitution : 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union /
Kowal, John F.,
The people's constitution : 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union / John F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III. - viii, 458 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- An imperfect Constitution -- The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804) -- The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870) -- The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920) -- The New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't -- The Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971) -- The 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't -- The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics -- The people's Constitution -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A : The text of the Constitution of the United States as amended, and the text of the unratified amendments -- Appendix B : Passage and ratifications of the amendments to the Constitution -- Appendix C : Passage and ratifications of the unratified amendments to the Constitution.
"The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"-- Who wrote the Constitution? We think it was the fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. Kowal and Codrington tell the story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. The result is an elegant, sobering account of the evolution of American democracy. -- adapted from jacket
9781620975619 1620975610
40030768619
2021022091
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020298751 Uk
Constitutional history--United States.
Constitutional amendments--History.--United States
The people's constitution : 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union / John F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III. - viii, 458 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- An imperfect Constitution -- The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804) -- The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870) -- The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920) -- The New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't -- The Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971) -- The 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't -- The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics -- The people's Constitution -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A : The text of the Constitution of the United States as amended, and the text of the unratified amendments -- Appendix B : Passage and ratifications of the amendments to the Constitution -- Appendix C : Passage and ratifications of the unratified amendments to the Constitution.
"The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"-- Who wrote the Constitution? We think it was the fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. Kowal and Codrington tell the story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. The result is an elegant, sobering account of the evolution of American democracy. -- adapted from jacket
9781620975619 1620975610
40030768619
2021022091
GBC1D6032 bnb
020298751 Uk
Constitutional history--United States.
Constitutional amendments--History.--United States