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The people's constitution : 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union / John F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kowal, John F., author.
- Codrington, Wilfred U., III, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Constitutional amendments--United States--History.
- Constitutional amendments.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 458 pages, 20 unnumbered pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : The New Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- An imperfect Constitution
- The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804)
- The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870)
- The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920)
- The New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't
- The Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971)
- The 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't
- The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics
- The people's Constitution.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62097-562-9
- OCLC:
- 1503844005
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