1st Edition
A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture
By Michael Kammen
Copyright 2006
578 Pages
by
Routledge
578 Pages
by
Routledge
560 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788 to our own time. As he examines what the Constitution has meant to the American people (perceptions and misperceptions, uses and abuses, knowledge and ignorance), Kammen shows that although there are... Read more
1: The Problem of Constitutionalism in American Culture; 1: The Most Wonderful Instrument Ever Drawn by the Hand of Man; 2: To Make the Constitution a Practical System; 3: All That Gives Us a National Character; 4: The Constitution Threatens to Be a Subject of Infinite Sects; 2: A Machine That Would Go of Itself; 5: On This Day, One Hundred Years Ago; 6: The American and the British Constitution Are Two Entirely Different Things; 7: The Crisis in Constitutionalism; 3: America is Always Talking About its Constitution; 8: God Knows How Dearly We Need a Constitutional Revival; 9: Decisions Are Politics When Constitutional Questions Are Up for Decision; 10: My God! Making a Racket out of the Constitution; 4: The Pendulum of Public Opinion; 11: Illegal Defiance of Constitutional Authority; 12: Our Bill of Rights Is Under Subtle and Pervasive Attack; 13: The Public Got Strange and Distorted Views of the Court and Its Rulings; 14: It’s What Holds Us All Together
Biography
Michael Kammen
