TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kowal,John F.
AU  - Codrington,Wilfred U.
TI  - The people's constitution: 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union 
SN  - 9781620975619
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - The New Press
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitutional amendments
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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