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This study provides a comprehensive new look at America's basic law, integrating the latest legal scholarship with historical context to highlight how it has evolved over time. The Constitution, it notes, was the product of the first modern revolution, and revolutions are, by definition, moment...

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Main Author: Bodenhamer, David J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Constitutional history > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
United States > Politics and government.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
Politics and government
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This study provides a comprehensive new look at America's basic law, integrating the latest legal scholarship with historical context to highlight how it has evolved over time. The Constitution, it notes, was the product of the first modern revolution, and revolutions are, by definition, moments when the past shifts toward an unfamiliar future, one radically different from what was foreseen only a brief time earlier.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2013.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190254339
0190254335