What did the Constitution mean to early Americans? : readings / selected and introduced by Edward Countryman ; selections by Isaac Kramnick [and others].

Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [1999]
Copyright Date: ©1999
Physical Description: xii, 169 pages ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: Countryman, Edward and Kramnick, Isaac

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The great national discussion : the discourse of politics in 1787 / Isaac Kramnick -- The Federalist reaction to Shay's rebellion / Stephen E. Patterson -- The American science of politics, from the Creation of the American republic, 1776-1787 / Gordon S. Wood -- Of every age sex & condition : the representation of women in the Constitution / Jan Lewis -- The perils of originalism, from Original meanings : politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution / Jack N. Rakove.

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0312218214
0312182627 (pbk.)

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Bibliography: pages 167-169.

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