Author : Voermans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1009385089
The Story of Constitutions
Voermans
The Story Of Constitutions
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Linda Colley
Author : Linda Colley
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631498350
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley Pdf
Best Books of the Year: Financial Times, The Economist Book of the Year: The Leaflet (International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism) Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize Profiled in The New Yorker New York Times Book Review • Editors’ Choice Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world. She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel. Colley shows how—while advancing epic revolutions and enfranchising white males—constitutions frequently served over the long nineteenth century to marginalize indigenous people, exclude women and people of color, and expropriate land. Simultaneously, though, she investigates how these devices were adapted by peoples and activists outside the West seeking to resist European and American power. She describes how Tunisia generated the first modern Islamic constitution in 1861, quickly suppressed, but an influence still on the Arab Spring; how Africanus Horton of Sierra Leone—inspired by the American Civil War—devised plans for self-governing nations in West Africa; and how Japan’s Meiji constitution of 1889 came to compete with Western constitutionalism as a model for Indian, Chinese, and Ottoman nationalists and reformers. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that—with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels—retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern.
The Story of the Constitution
Sol Bloom
Author : Sol Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258957043
The Story of the Constitution by Sol Bloom Pdf
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
The Constitutions of the Free-masons
James Anderson
Author : James Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1723
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN : OXFORD:600082012
The Constitutions of the Free-masons by James Anderson Pdf
The English Constitution
Walter Bagehot
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081652806
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot Pdf
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.
The Story of the Constitution
Sol Bloom
Author : Sol Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:369189005
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The People’s Constitution
John F. Kowal
Author : John F. Kowal
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781620975626
The People’s Constitution by John F. Kowal Pdf
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.
The Story of Our Constitution
Eva March Tappan,William F. Schuyler
Author : Eva March Tappan,William F. Schuyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : United States
ISBN : LCCN:40034937
The Story of Our Constitution by Eva March Tappan,William F. Schuyler Pdf
Shh! we're writing the Constitution
Jean Fritz
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Nám
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9991801359
Shh! we're writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz Pdf
The Constitution of Knowledge
Jonathan Rauch
Author : Jonathan Rauch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815738879
The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch Pdf
Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts “In what could be the timeliest book of the year, Rauch aims to arm his readers to engage with reason in an age of illiberalism.” —Newsweek A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. In 2016 Russian trolls and bots nearly drowned the truth in a flood of fake news and conspiracy theories, and Donald Trump and his troll armies continued to do the same. Social media companies struggled to keep up with a flood of falsehoods, and too often didn't even seem to try. Experts and some public officials began wondering if society was losing its grip on truth itself. Meanwhile, another new phenomenon appeared: “cancel culture.” At the push of a button, those armed with a cellphone could gang up by the thousands on anyone who ran afoul of their sanctimony. In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge”—our social system for turning disagreement into truth. By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do—and how they can do it. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.
Constituting Empire
Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Author : Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 0807876879
Constituting Empire by Daniel J. Hulsebosch Pdf
According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state rather than a mere description of governmental roles. Daniel J. Hulsebosch complicates this viewpoint by arguing that American ideas of constitutions were based on British ones and that, in New York, those ideas evolved over the long eighteenth century as New York moved from the periphery of the British Atlantic empire to the center of a new continental empire. Hulsebosch explains how colonists and administrators reconfigured British legal sources to suit their needs in an expanding empire. In this story, familiar characters such as Alexander Hamilton and James Kent appear in a new light as among the nation's most important framers, and forgotten loyalists such as Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson and lawyer William Smith Jr. are rightly returned to places of prominence. In his paradigm-shifting analysis, Hulsebosch captures the essential paradox at the heart of American constitutional history: the Revolution, which brought political independence and substituted the people for the British crown as the source of legitimate authority, also led to the establishment of a newly powerful constitution and a new postcolonial genre of constitutional law that would have been the envy of the British imperial agents who had struggled to govern the colonies before the Revolution.
The Story of Constitutions
Wim Voermans
Author : Wim Voermans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009385053
The Story of Constitutions by Wim Voermans Pdf
Wim Voermans traces the surprising story of constitutions since the agricultural revolution of c.10,000 B.C. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, Voermans shows how human evolution, human nature and the history of thought have all played their part in shaping modern constitutions, and how, in turn, constitutions have shaped our societies.
Creating a Constitution
Federica Carugati
Author : Federica Carugati
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691195636
Creating a Constitution by Federica Carugati Pdf
A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created and how political and economic goals that were normally associated with Western developed countries were once achieved through different institutional arrangements--with lessons for contemporary constitution-building.ding.
The First Book of the Constitution
Richard Brandon Morris
Author : Richard Brandon Morris
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531005119
The First Book of the Constitution by Richard Brandon Morris Pdf
Discusses the writing of the Constitution and includes a short outline. Also includes a discussion of the weaknesses of confederation government and descriptions of the founding fathers.
America's Constitution
Akhil Reed Amar
Author : Akhil Reed Amar
Publisher : Random House
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588364876
America's Constitution by Akhil Reed Amar Pdf
In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it. We all know this much: the Constitution is neither immutable nor perfect. Amar shows us how the story of this one relatively compact document reflects the story of America more generally. (For example, much of the Constitution, including the glorious-sounding “We the People,” was lifted from existing American legal texts, including early state constitutions.) In short, the Constitution was as much a product of its environment as it was a product of its individual creators’ inspired genius. Despite the Constitution’s flaws, its role in guiding our republic has been nothing short of amazing. Skillfully placing the document in the context of late-eighteenth-century American politics, America’s Constitution explains, for instance, whether there is anything in the Constitution that is unamendable; the reason America adopted an electoral college; why a president must be at least thirty-five years old; and why–for now, at least–only those citizens who were born under the American flag can become president. From his unique perspective, Amar also gives us unconventional wisdom about the Constitution and its significance throughout the nation’s history. For one thing, we see that the Constitution has been far more democratic than is conventionally understood. Even though the document was drafted by white landholders, a remarkably large number of citizens (by the standards of 1787) were allowed to vote up or down on it, and the document’s later amendments eventually extended the vote to virtually all Americans. We also learn that the Founders’ Constitution was far more slavocratic than many would acknowledge: the “three fifths” clause gave the South extra political clout for every slave it owned or acquired. As a result, slaveholding Virginians held the presidency all but four of the Republic’s first thirty-six years, and proslavery forces eventually came to dominate much of the federal government prior to Lincoln’s election. Ambitious, even-handed, eminently accessible, and often surprising, America’s Constitution is an indispensable work, bound to become a standard reference for any student of history and all citizens of the United States.
