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100	1		_aKowal, John F., _eauthor. _4aut
245	1	4	_aThe people's constitution : _b200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union / _cJohn F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III.
264		1	_aNew York : _bThe New Press, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_aviii, 458 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction -- _tAn imperfect Constitution -- _tThe Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804) -- _tThe Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870) -- _tThe Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920) -- _tThe New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't -- _tThe Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971) -- _tThe 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't -- _tThe Era of Conservative Amendment Politics -- _tThe people's Constitution -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tAppendix A : The text of the Constitution of the United States as amended, and the text of the unratified amendments -- _tAppendix B : Passage and ratifications of the amendments to the Constitution -- _tAppendix C : Passage and ratifications of the unratified amendments to the Constitution.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aWho 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
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States. _948121
650		0	_aConstitutional amendments _zUnited States _xHistory.
700	1		_aCodrington, Wilfred U., _cIII, _eauthor. _4aut
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