From parchment to power : how James Madison used the Bill of Rights to save the Constitution

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From parchment to power : how James Madison used the Bill of Rights to save the Constitution

Robert A. Goldwin

AEI Press, 1997

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-205) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780844740126

Description

This text examines how lingering problems beyond the ratification struggle threatened to undermine popular acceptance of the constitution. It focuses on the addition and need of the "Bill of Rights" to the constitution of the United States by James Madison.
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: pbk ISBN 9780844740133

Description

This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that addition completed the Constitution by clarifying the status of the American people.

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