The Second Creation : Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era / Jonathan Gienapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gienapp, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution.

United States.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Americans widely believe that the U.S. Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Jonathan Gienapp recovers the unknown story of the Constitution's second creation in the decade after its adoption-a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Reimagining the Creation of the American Constitution

1. The Uncertainty of Written Constitutionalism

2. Language and Power

3. The Unfinished Constitution

4. The Sacred Text

5. The Rules of the Constitution

6. The "People's" Constitution

7. The Apotheosis of the Fixed Constitution

Epilogue: The Endurance of Fixity

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674989528

067498952X

9780674989542

0674989546

OCLC:

1055160463