Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents InterpretedStephen L. Schechter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1991 M11 1 - 472 páginas Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays that explain what they mean, why they were written, and why they are important today. Each key document is accompanied by an interpretive essay written by a contemporary scholar. These essays focus on the importance of each frame of government and include commentaries on why they are meaningful today. Intended to help readers learn how to read and understand these documents, the book is also a handy reference and a strong introduction to the development of political thought and the debates surrounding the formation of the state governments and the federal union. |
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... City Charter , 1686 83 Commentary by Leo Hershkowitz VI . The Albany Plan of Union , 1754 106 Commentary by Thomas E. Burke VII . John Adams's Thoughts on Government , 1776 118 Commentary by Richard B. Bernstein VIII . The Declaration ...
... City Charter , 1686 83 Commentary by Leo Hershkowitz VI . The Albany Plan of Union , 1754 106 Commentary by Thomas E. Burke VII . John Adams's Thoughts on Government , 1776 118 Commentary by Richard B. Bernstein VIII . The Declaration ...
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... City Charter , certain vagaries of early American English ( both written and printed ) have been eliminated - for example , the thorn ( ye ) , the tilde , superscript abbreviations , and the long and short " s . " The seventeenth ...
... City Charter , certain vagaries of early American English ( both written and printed ) have been eliminated - for example , the thorn ( ye ) , the tilde , superscript abbreviations , and the long and short " s . " The seventeenth ...
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... city charters which founded civil communities ; the second embraces colonial charters and state constitutions ; and the third includes attempts to establish a union of those colonies ( as in the proposed Albany Plan of Union ) , states ...
... city charters which founded civil communities ; the second embraces colonial charters and state constitutions ; and the third includes attempts to establish a union of those colonies ( as in the proposed Albany Plan of Union ) , states ...
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... City Charter of 1686 shows how , twenty years later , another local community was refounded by a royal charter that was the result of complex negotiations between the city fathers and Royal Governor Thomas Dongan . At the same time ...
... City Charter of 1686 shows how , twenty years later , another local community was refounded by a royal charter that was the result of complex negotiations between the city fathers and Royal Governor Thomas Dongan . At the same time ...
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... city's commemoration of the jubilee of the Declaration , Jefferson stressed the Declaration's larger signifi- cance , and the significance of the Revolution it inspired , for human history : " May it be to the world , what I believe it ...
... city's commemoration of the jubilee of the Declaration , Jefferson stressed the Declaration's larger signifi- cance , and the significance of the Revolution it inspired , for human history : " May it be to the world , what I believe it ...
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