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627) The Bill of Rights and the states: the colonial and revolutionary origins of American liberties
Publisher
Madison House
Pub. Date
1992
Author
Publisher
The Edwin Mellen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The relationship of civil government to religious enterprise was important to most of the people who participated in the formation of the United States of America and its original thirteen states (and later that of Vermont). How they approached the matter in their states and later at the national level when they created a new constitution is the topic of this book. Indeed, there was a significant difference in how state legislatures approached the...
631) Triumvirate: the story of the unlikely alliance that saved the Constitution and united the nation
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The gripping story of three Founding Fathers--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--who battled their own independence-loving people and created a united America.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Beginning in the antebellum period and continuing through Secession, Reconstruction, and after, Southern States went through a period of intense constitution writing and rewriting mostly through a series of constitutional conventions. These conventions wrote constitutions that protected slavery, allowed for Secession, then allowed them to rejoin the union, and finally enshrined the rule of a white elite and the suppression of black rights. In this...
634) This Constitution
Publisher
Project '87 of the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association
Pub. Date
c1983-c1988]