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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679781218
ISBN-139780679781219
eBay Product ID (ePID)763504
Product Key Features
Book TitleOriginal Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicConstitutional, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Constitutions, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year1997
GenreLaw, Political Science, History
AuthorJack N. Rakove
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"The most thoughtful and careful scholarly analysis to date of the extent to which the framers should control our contemporary understanding of the Constitution."--Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies
Dewey Decimal342.7/3/029
SynopsisFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans., With 'Original Meanings' Jack N. Rakove offers an account of the political world in which the Constitution of the United States was created, showing how that document meant different things to different groups of Americans at different times.