The annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence / / edited by Jack N. Rakove

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826279403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-674-26654-4; 0-674-05447-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Altri autori (Persone): RakoveJack N. <1947->
• Disciplina: 342.7302
• Soggetti: Constitutional law - United States; Constitutional history - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-351).
• Nota di contenuto: The Declaration of Independence -- The U.S. Constitution -- Amendments to the Constitution.
• Sommario/riassunto: Here in a beautifully bound cloth gift edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88), in which "We the People" forged a new nation and built the framework for our federal republic. Together with the Bill of Rights and the Civil War amendments, these documents constitute what James Madison called our "political scriptures," and have come to define us as a people. Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian serves as a guide to these texts, providing historical contexts and offering interpretive commentary.