Four Pillars of Constitutionalism: The Organic Laws of the United StatesRichard Howard Cox Prometheus Books, 1998 - 142 halaman The four primary documents that, since 1878, formed a type of "preamble" to the revised United States Code the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Constitution are brought together here for the first time in a single volume. Political theorist Richard Cox introduces these founding "laws" of America, places them in historical context, examines the leaders who introduced them, and discusses how and why these documents were given such an important place in the U.S. Code. Cox explains the significance of the code's revision in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Designed for students and general readers, Four Pillars of Constitutionalism explores how each of the four components of our nation's legal history was developed and their main features, including the full text of each document, and a bibliography of selected readings. This work is a handy, accessible, and very useful supplement to the study of constitutional law, history, and American political thought. |
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... surely can be and is con- tested . And as we shall see in the latter part of this Introduction , Mansfield's own writings on American constitutionalism may prop- erly be said to be a contribution to modest - sized but worthy schol- arly ...
... surely can be and is con- tested . And as we shall see in the latter part of this Introduction , Mansfield's own writings on American constitutionalism may prop- erly be said to be a contribution to modest - sized but worthy schol- arly ...
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... surely more difficult to know than is the case with the first conditional , and the nature of such " public expectation " is surely also open to dispute . Even so , Lincoln appears to feel it is important to direct citizen attention to ...
... surely more difficult to know than is the case with the first conditional , and the nature of such " public expectation " is surely also open to dispute . Even so , Lincoln appears to feel it is important to direct citizen attention to ...
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... surely intends with this statement - and with many similar ones he made as the crisis deepened - to show the inextri- cable linkage between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution , and to build into that linkage the ...
... surely intends with this statement - and with many similar ones he made as the crisis deepened - to show the inextri- cable linkage between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution , and to build into that linkage the ...
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