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The U.S. Constitution : a reader / edited by the Hillsdale College Politics Faculty.

Hillsdale College. Politics Faculty. (Added Author).

Summary:

"The U.S. Constitution: A Reader is made up of original source documents that bear upon the founding of the American republic, the making of its Constitution, and the struggle to preserve that document and govern under it to the current day."--Foreword. Includes readings ranging from Aristotle, Locke, Paine, the Federalist Papers, Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, to Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.

Record details

ISBN: 0916308367
ISBN: 9780916308360
Physical Description: xiii, 790 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Hillsdale, Mich. : Hillsdale College Press, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

The apple of gold and the frame of silver -- Natural rights and the American Revolution -- The founders on religion, morality, and property -- Government under the Articles of Confederation : the problem of legislative / majority tyranny -- Rethinking the nature of Union and the structure of government -- The three branches of government -- The founders on slavery, the rise of the positive good school, and the roots of the secession crisis -- Crisis of constitutional government -- Secession and Civil War -- The progressive rejection of the founding -- Institutionalizing progressivism : the New Deal and the great society.