The second creation : fixing the American Constitution in the founding era /

Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation...

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Main Author:	Gienapp, Jonathan, 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	United States. > Constitution. Constitutional history > United States. Constitutional law > United States.