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  • M'Culloch v. Maryland

    Securing a Nation

    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Federalism—including its meanings and limits—remains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law. To fully understand its importance, we must turn to a landmark decision nearly two centuries old. M’Culloch v. Maryland (1819) is widely regarded as the Supreme Court’s most important and influential decision—one that essentially defined the nature and scope of federal authority and its ... Leer más

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  • The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty

    Constitutional History and Contemporary Issues

    In the wake of the 2000 Election, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the American states has become more important. Once derided by the Court as a 'truism,' the Tenth Amendment has in recent years been transformed from a neglected provision into a vital 'first principle.' As such, it has provided the foundation for a series of decisions in which the Supreme Court has elevated the ... Leer más

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  • Slavery's Constitution

    From Revolution to Ratification

    "A historian finds the seeds of an inevitable civil war embedded in the 'contradictions, ambiguities, and silences' about slavery in the Constitution." — Kirkus ReviewsTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the US Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four ... Leer más

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  • Seceding from Secession

    The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

    A "thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening" account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war ( Civil War News)."West Virginia was the child of the storm." —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. LangAs the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. ... Leer más

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  • Decision in Philadelphia

    The Constitutional Convention of 1787

    Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century America not only come alive, but the very human ... Leer más

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  • James Buchanan

    The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861

    de Jean H. Baker ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War.Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even offered a seat on the Supreme Court. And yet, by every measure except his own, James Buchanan was a ... Leer más

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  • Ratification

    The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

    de Pauline Maier ...
    The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working government.When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new ... Leer más

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  • The Words That Made Us

    America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

    From a preeminent legal scholar, a “fascinating” and “masterful” (Wall Street Journal) history of the American Constitution's formative decadesWhen the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen ... Leer más

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  • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

    Series series Modern Library Founding Documents
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham introduces America's essential founding documents in an elegant, readable, and timeless volume.In the winter of 1860–1861, facing the prospect of secession and civil war, President Abraham Lincoln held fast to the founding promise of the now-imperiled United States of America. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution had forged the ... Leer más

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  • The Constitutional Convention

    A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so recently deposed. A truly national government was needed, one that could raise money, regulate commerce, and defend the states against foreign threats–without becoming as overbearing as England. So ... Leer más

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  • The Fate of Their Country

    Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

    "Holt's fascinating study of partisan politics and the territorial slavery issue shows again why he is one of America's finest pre-civil war historians." —William W. Freehling, author of The Road to DisunionWhat brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt ... Leer más

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  • What Kind of Nation

    Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Stru

    The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than one hundred fifty years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic and fully accessible account of these ... Leer más

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