A history of the American Constitution, 2d ed.
0314152156
A history of the American Constitution, 2d ed.
Farber, Daniel A. and Suzanna Sherry Suzanna Sherry is a professor in the area of constitutional law with particular emphasis in the subject of federal courts. A graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied under Murray Dry, and the University of Chicago Law School, she is the Herman O. .
Thomson West
2005
649 pages
$36.00
Paperback
American casebook A printed compilation of judicial decisions illustrating the application of particular principles of a specific field of law, such as torts, that is used in Legal Education to teach students under the Case Method system. series
KF4541
Farber (law, U. of California, Berkeley) and Sherry (law,
Vanderbilt U.) trace the history of the United States Constitution The United States Constitution was written in 1787, adopted in 1788, and took effect in 1789, replacing the Articles of Confederation. Declaration of Independence
Main article: United States Declaration of Independence
, from
its intellectual origins in the Magna Carta Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter], the most famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King John at Runnymede under compulsion from the barons and the church in June, 1215. to present-day arguments
concerning the intentions of its authors. The focus is on the debates
that took place during the drafting and ratification of each phase of
the document. Included in the appendices are the text of the U.S.
Constitution, drafts of the Bill of Rights and the 1787 Constitution,
and a biographical dictionary of the people involved in their creation.
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