Second Creation - Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gienapp is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. A scholar of early American political culture, he has written several articles on early constitutional history and modern constitutional theory and interpretation that speak to current political concerns. Klappentext Americans widely believe that the U.S. Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Jonathan Gienapp recovers the unknown story of the Constitution¿s second creation in the decade after its adoption¿a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Gienapp
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780674185043
• ISBN: 978-0-674-18504-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, Political science & theory, Legal History, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general