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Title:

To form a more perfect Union : the critical ideas of the Constitution / edited by Herman Belz, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert.

Publisher:

Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

xvi, 371 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Constitutional history.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Other Authors:

Albert, Peter J.
Belz, Herman.
Hoffman, Ronald, 1941-
United States Capitol Historical Society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Fundamental values, the founding fathers, and the Constitution / John M. Murrin -- The protection of property in the origins and development of the American Constitution / Jennifer Nedelsky -- The individualist foundations of American constitutionalism / J.R. Pole -- John Adams and the French critics of the Constitution / John P. Diggins -- The political philosophy of the Constitution / Edward J. Erler -- The discourse of politics in 1787 : the Constitution and its critics on individualism, community, and the state / Isaac Kramnick -- The Constitution and character : the missing critical principle? / Jean Yarbrough -- Facing up to the founding / Ralph Lerner -- Anarchy and the crisis of the union / Peter S. Onuf -- Ideas in conflict : political strategy and intellectual advantage in the federal convention / Calvin C. Jillson.

Series:

Perspectives on the American Revolution

ISBN:

9780813913438
0813913438

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23941003

LCCN:

91021152

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)