The Constitution of the United States : yesterday, today--and tomorrow? /
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
George H. Doran Company,
1925.
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| Edition: | Seventh printing. |
| Series: | Legal classics library.
World constitutions illustrated. |
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Legal Classics Library HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated |
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Table of Contents:
- The genesis of the Constitution
- The last days of the Confederation
- The great convention
- Franklin gives a dinner
- The preliminaries
- The opening of the convention
- The opening of the battle
- Mr. Hamilton takes the floor
- Nearing the crisis
- The crisis
- The dawn
- The convention witnesses a great experiment
- Nearing the end
- The curtain falls
- The ratification of the Constitution
- The political philosophy of the Constitution
- The basic principles of the Constitution
- The balance-wheel of the Constitution
- The system of checks and balances
- The Constitution and America's foreign relations
- A century later
- A rising or a setting sun?
- The decay of leadership
- The revolt against authority.