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Papers on the constitution / edited by John Elsberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- U.S. Army bicentennial series.
- U.S. Army bicentennial series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1990.
- Summary:
- The Army's efforts in support of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution took many different forms, including a Bicentennial Lecture Series. A group of distinguished historians presented papers that treat the whole spectrum of current research on the Constitution and its origins, especially the role of the Framers in the formation of the new Republic. Papers on the Constitution captures these scholars' pertinent, often intriguing, conclusions. The volume makes clear to the men and women of today's Army that the Framers of the Constitution established for all time the precedent that the military, subordinated to Congress, would remain the servant of the Republic, a tradition summarized in every Soldier's oath "to support the Constitution of the United States against all enemies ... [and] to bear true faith and allegiance to the same."
- Contents:
- George Washington's contributions to American constitutionalism / Don Higginbotham
- Madison's career peak: the Federal Convention of 1787 / Robert A. Rutland
- Charles Beard revisited: the Revolutionary debt and the Federal Constitution / Richard Buel
- America and the creation of the Revolutionary intellectual world of the Enlightenment / Jack P. Greene
- The Constitutions and the citizen-soldier / Allan R. Millet
- A question of sovereignty: the militia in Anglo-American constitutional debate, 1641-1827 / Lawrence Delbert Cress
- The Constitution and the citizen: the question of civilian control / William A Stofft
- The Constitution today and tomorrow / A.E. Dick Howard
- What is magna carta?
- The liberties of England
- Magna carta and parliament
- Magna carta and the common law
- Magna carta beyond the seas
- Magna carta and the future
- Translation of magna carta.
- Notes:
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