Original Meanings Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Name: Original Meanings Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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ISBN: 9780679781219

ISBN-10: 0679781218

ISBN-13: 9780679781219

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jack N. Rakove

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With Original Meanings, Jack N. Rakove offers an account of the political world in which the Constitution of the United States was created, showing how that document meant different things to different groups of Americans at different times.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/27/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.96" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Jack N. Rakove is the William R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of the Pulitzer Prizeï¿½e"winning Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Perils of Originalism



The Road to Philadelphia



The Madisonian Moment



The Politics of Constitution-Making



The Concept of Ratification



Debating the Constitution



Federalism



The Mirror of Representation



Creating the Presidency



Rights



Madison and the Origins of Originalism


Coda


A Note on Sources


Notes


Index