History of the Formation of the Union under the Constitution with Liberty Documents and Report of the Commission / Sol Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Sol, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 885 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1941.

Contents:

I. Story of the Constitution

Preface

Diagram of origin of the Constitution

Part I. Origin of the United States

Part II. Formation of the Constitution

Part III. The Constitution in operation

Portraits and sketches of the signers of the Constitution

Ratifications, admissions, and possessions

Ratification of amendments

Alphabetical analysis of the Constitution

National development under the Constitution, with maps

Questions and answers pertaining to the Constitution

II. The organization of the government under the Constitution

The action of the Continental Congress

Elections

The presidential election

The organization of Congress

Inauguration of President Washington

The Bill of Rights

The executive departments

The judiciary

Departmental and inter-departmental precedents

State readjustments

The wayward sisters

References

III. Liberty documents

Magna Carta

Petition of rights

Habeas Corpus Act

Bill of Rights (English)

Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation

Constitution of the United States, with Amendments

George Washington's farewell address

Monroe Doctrine

IV. Celebration of the Constitution Sesquicentennial

Report of the Commission

Commemoration of the signing of the Constitution

Address of Honorable Sol Bloom at the Tomb of Washington

Address of Honorable Sol Bloom at the Shrine of the Constitution

Address of President Roosevelt at the Sylvan Theater

Address of Senator William E. Borah at Constitution Hall

Commemoration of the Ratification of the Constitution

Address of Honorable Sol Bloom at Independence Hall

Observance of the Sesquicentennial of the Congress

Address of Speaker William B. Bankhead

Address of Senator Key Pittman

Address of Senatory Alben W. Barkley

Address of Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes

Address of President Roosevelt

Members of the First and Seventy-sixth Congresses

Mount Vernon excercises ini honor of Washington's notification of election as president

Address of Regent Mrs. Horace Mann Towner

Reading by Honorable Sol Bloom

Memorial celecbration at New York World's Fair

Address of Governor Herbert H. Lehman

Address of Mayor F. H. LaGuardia

Address of Sir Louis Beale, British Commissioner General

Address of Honorable Grover A. Whalen, President, New York World's Fair

Address of Governor Lehman at the Washington Statue

Report on the ceremonies

Observance of the Sesquicentennial of the Supreme Court

Address of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson

Address of Honorable Charles A. Beardsley, President, American Bar Association

Address of Senator Charles A. Hatch

Address of Senator Warren R. Austin

Address of Representative Ulysses S. Guyer

Address of Representative Hatton W. Sumners

List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

High courts of the world

The man who engrossed the Constitution

Catalogue of the loan exhibit of portraits

Constitution cartoons

General index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (United States Government Printing Office, viewed August 1, 2023).