Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture

Name: Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture
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ISBN: 9781412805834

ISBN-10: 141280583X

ISBN-13: 9781412805834

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Kammen

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List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 578
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.17" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Michael Kammen is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University. His books include Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture and A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. He was awarded the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization.



Introduction to the Transaction Edition


List of Illustrations


Forethoughts


Acknowledgments



The Problem of Constitutionalism in American Culture



The Most Wonderful Instrument Ever Drawn by the Hand of Man



To Make the Constitution a Practical System



All That Gives Us a National Character



The Constitution Threatens to Be a Subject of Infinite Sects



A Machine That Would Go of Itself



On This Day, One Hundred Years Ago



The American and the British Constitution Are Two Entirely Different Things



The Crisis in Constitutionalism



America Is Always Talking About Its Constitution



God Knows How Dearly We Need a Constitutional Revival



Decisions Are Politics When Constitutional Questions Are Up for Decision



My God! Making a Racket out of the Constitution



The Pendulum of Public Opinion



Illegal Defiance of Constitutional Authority



Our Bill of Rights Is Under Subtle and Pervasive Attack



The Public Got Strange and Distorted Views of the Court and Its Rulings



It's What Holds Us All Together



A Note on the Sources



A Supplementary Note on Iconography



"A Constitution for the New Deal"



Abbreviations


Notes


Index