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02805aam a2200421 i 4500 001 A8FA2A9ECF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200805s2021 cau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020035299 020 $a 0804776709 020 $a 9780804776707 035 $a (OCoLC)1176321115 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d SLV $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF4541 $b .B74 2021 100 1 $a Breslin, Beau, $d 1966- $e author. 245 12 $a A constitution for the living : $b imagining how five generations of Americans would rewrite the nation's fundamental law / $c Beau Breslin. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xix, 359 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 1787 : an introduction -- 1825 -- 1863 -- 1903 -- 1953 -- 2022. 520 $a "Beau Breslin imagines what constitutions would have looked like throughout America's history if Thomas Jefferson's call for a new constitution every generation had been followed. Though based on the underlying and competing philosophies of the Jefferson and Madison debates, the main focus of this book is a creative yet historically-grounded imagining of various generations' Constitutional Conventions. Breslin works through US history, drawing on state constitutional debates to consider what could have happened on the federal level at various periods in America. He then turns to the future, and outlines what a constitutional convention of the next generation could potentially reveal, where we've been, and where we're going as nation. Reflecting on the meaning and importance of the Constitution, Breslin's manuscript reveals a broader and more important conversation about whether now is the time to scrap the Constitutional experiment and start all over"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States. 650 0 $a Constitutional law $z United States. 650 0 $a Imaginary histories. 650 7 $a Constitutional history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875777 650 7 $a Constitutional law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875797 650 7 $a Imaginary histories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967564 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Counterfactual histories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919907 655 7 $a Counterfactual histories. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Breslin, Beau, 1966- $t A constitution for the living. $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021 $z 9781503627543 $w (DLC) 2020035300 941 $a 2 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230530010205.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A8FA2A9ECF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search