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The Origins of the American Constitution : A Documentary History
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The Origins of the American Constitution : A Documentary History Paperback - 1986

by Michael Kammen (Editor)

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  • Title The Origins of the American Constitution : A Documentary History
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986-11-04
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 10432912-75
  • ISBN 9780140087444 / 0140087443
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.85 x 5.08 x 1.07 in (19.94 x 12.90 x 2.72 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Constitutional history - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86-8173
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.302

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Among the many publications which have appeared on the subject of political Constructions, none, that I have seen, have properly defined what is meant by a Constitution, that word having been bandied about without any determinate sense being affirmed thereto.

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MICHAEL KAMMEN, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University, was a president of the Organization of American Historians. He was the author or editor of numerous works, including People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture, awarded the Francis Parkman Prize and the Henry Adams Prize. Kammen lectured throughout the world. He died in 2013.

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