The People's Constitution
200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
New York : The New Press, 2021.
Format: Book
Description: viii, 458 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- An imperfect Constitution -- The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804) -- The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870) -- The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920) -- The New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't -- The Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971) -- The 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't -- The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics -- The people's Constitution.
Subjects:
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional amendments -- United States -- History.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional amendments -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9781620975619
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LAW Constitution Kow | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.