The words that made us : America's constitutional conversation, 1760-1840 /

The words that made us : America's constitutional conversation, 1760-1840 / Akhil Reed Amar.

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"Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar tells the story of America's constitutional conversation during its first eighty years--from the Constitution's birth in 1760 through the 1830s, when the last of America's early leaders died. Amar traces the threads of Constitutional discou...

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Main Author: Amar, Akhil Reed (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Constitutional history > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
Constitutional history.
Constitutional law.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The first four score
  • Part I: Revolution
  • "Seeds"
  • Resistance
  • Independence
  • Part II: Constitution
  • We
  • America
  • People
  • Part III: Consolidation
  • Washington
  • Hamilton
  • Adams-Jefferson-Madison
  • Jefferson-Marshall
  • Marshall-Story
  • Jackson
  • Adieus
  • Postscript : why this book?

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