Russell Fraser, Michael Kammen

A Machine That Would Go of Itself

The Constitution in American Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788 to our own time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9781138518391
• ISBN-10: 1138518395
• Artikelnr.: 50498153

Autorenporträt

Michael Kammen

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Problem of Constitutionalism in American Culture
1: The Most Wonderful Instrument Ever Drawn by the Hand of Man
2: To Make the Constitution a Practical System
3: All That Gives Us a National Character
4: The Constitution Threatens to Be a Subject of Infinite Sects
2: A Machine That Would Go of Itself
5: On This Day, One Hundred Years Ago
6: The American and the British Constitution Are Two Entirely Different Things
7: The Crisis in Constitutionalism
3: America is Always Talking About its Constitution
8: God Knows How Dearly We Need a Constitutional Revival
9: Decisions Are Politics When Constitutional Questions Are Up for Decision
10: My God! Making a Racket out of the Constitution
4: The Pendulum of Public Opinion
11: Illegal Defiance of Constitutional Authority
12: Our Bill of Rights Is Under Subtle and Pervasive Attack
13: The Public Got Strange and Distorted Views of the Court and Its Rulings
14: It's What Holds Us All Together