TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bainton,Roland
AU  - Beard,Charles A.
AU  - Becker,Carl
AU  - Binkley,Robert C.
AU  - Brunn,Geoffrey
AU  - Commager,Henry Steele
AU  - De Kiewiet,C.W.
AU  - Elliott,W.Y.
AU  - Gabriel,Ralph Henry
AU  - Haller,William
AU  - Hamilton,Walton H.
AU  - Haring,C.H.
AU  - Holborn,Hajo
AU  - Lerner,Max
AU  - Maciver,R.M.
AU  - Martin,Percy Alvin
AU  - McIlwain,Charles H.
AU  - Mecham,J.Lloyd
AU  - Nef,John U.
AU  - Pargellis,Stanley
AU  - Read,Conyers
AU  - Salvemini,Gaetano
AU  - Schneider,Herbert W.
AU  - Stephenson,Carl
AU  - Throne,S.E.
AU  - Whitelaw,W.Menzies
AU  - Wright,C.P.
TI  - The Constitution Reconsidered
SN  - 9780231932523
AV  - JK271 .R33
U1  - 342.733 
PY  - 1938///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Political science
KW  - History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; 1937 to 1787, Dr. --; Contents --; Part One. The Background of Political, Economic, and Social Ideas behind the Constitution --; The Fundamental Law behind the Constitution of the United States --; The Constitution and the Courts: a Reexamination of the Famous Case of Dr. Bonham --; The Beginnings of Representative Government in England --; The Theory of Balanced Government --; European Doctrines and the Constitution --; Mercantilism: the Old English Pattern of a Controlled Economy --; English and French Industrial History After 1540 in Relation to the Constitution --; The Concepts of Democracy and Liberty in the Eighteenth Century --; The Appeal to Reason and the American Constitution --; The Puritan Background of the First Amendment --; Philosophical Differences between the Constitution and the Bill of Rights --; Part Two. The Constitution and Its Influence upon American Thought --; Historiography and the Constitution --; The Path of Due Process of Law --; Minority Rule and the Constitutional Tradition --; The Constitution as the American Social Myth --; Constitutional History and the Higher Law --; Constitutional Democracy: a Nineteenth-Century Faith --; Part Three. E Repercussions of the Constitution outside the United States --; The Constitutional Cult in the Early Nineteenth Century --; The Holy Roman Empire versus the United States: Patterns for Constitution-Making in Central Europe --; The Influence of the American Constitution on the Weimar Constitution --; American Influence on British Federal Systems --; The Judicial Interpretation of the Canadian Constitution --; The Frontier and the Constitution in South Africa --; Federalism in Latin America --; The Origins of Federalism in Mexico --; Federalism in Brazil --; Epilogue --; Afterthoughts on Constitutions --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Prints several papers read aloud at the meeting of the American Historical Association in December, 1937 on the sesquicentennial anniversary of the United States Constitution. Provides the background of the thinking of the framers of the Constitution, an analysis of some phases of the Constitution and a study of its influence
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/read93252
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231892773
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