The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 by Akhil Reed Amar

The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

Akhil Reed Amar

817 pages • first pub 2021 (view editions)

nonfiction reference sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholarWhen the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratif...

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