Liberty and Union A Constitutional History of the United States, Concise Edition

Name: Liberty and Union A Constitutional History of the United States, Concise Edition
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ISBN: 9780415892865

ISBN-10: 0415892864

ISBN-13: 9780415892865

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tara Helfman, Edgar J. McManus

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This, the concise edition of Liberty and Union, is an abridged constitutional history of the United States, designed for short single-semester courses, comprising the key topics from Volumes 1 and 2.Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, it successfully unites thorough chronological coverage with a thematic approach, offering critical analysis of core constitutional history topics, set in the political, social, and economic context that made them constitutional issues in the first place. Combining a thoughtful and balanced narrative with an authoritative stance on key issues, the authors deliberately explain the past in the light of the past, without imposing upon it the standards…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/28/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 728
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.04" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English




English and Colonial Origins



Independence and Nationhood



A More Perfect Union



Launching the New Government



Jeffersonian Republicanism



John Marshall and Judicial Nationalism



Majority Rule and Sectional Rights



More Power to the States



Slavery and the Constitution



The Crisis of the Union



Reconstructing the Nation



Promises Betrayed



Property Rights and Judicial Activism



Progressivism and the New Nationalism



World War I and the Constitution



Normalcy and Reaction



The New Deal Revolution



The New Constitutionalism



World War II and the Constitution



The Era of the Cold War



Earl Warren Takes the Helm



A Decade of Change and Progress



The New Judicial Activism



Nationalizing Criminal Due Process



An Era of Discord and Crisis



Progress on First Amendment Rights



Civil Rights and Affirmative Action



Protecting Individual Liberty



Criminal Due Process after Warren



Civilizing the Death Penalty



Politics and the Constitution



The New Millennium



The Roberts Court


Recommended Reading


Appendices


Table of Cases