For Ourselves and Our Posterity The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History

Name: For Ourselves and Our Posterity The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History
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ISBN: 9780199899531

ISBN-10: 0199899533

ISBN-13: 9780199899531

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter Charles Hoffer

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In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early American history. Over the course of five days in September 1787, five men serving on an ad hoc"Committee of Style and Arrangement" edited the draft of the federal Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, profoundly recasting the wording of the Preamble. In so doing, the committee changed a federation into a Union and laid out an ambitious program for national governance many yearsahead of its time. The Preamble and all that it came to represent was the unique achievement of a remarkable group…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 9/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.10" wide x 5.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Editors' Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Prologue Dinner at Mrs. Dailey's Boarding House



The Revolutionary Republics, the Confederation, and Their Laws



The Constitutional Convention Meets



Drafting the Preamble



Ratification and the First Federal Administration, 1787-1801



The Preamble in Crisis Times, 1801-1865



Legacies of the Preamble


Epilogue "Our Posterity"


Notes


For Further Reading


Index