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Author:

Kowal, John F., author.

Title:

The people's constitution : 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union / John F. Kowal and Wilfred U. Codrington III.

Publisher:

The New Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

viii, 458 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Constitutional history--United States.
Constitutional amendments--United States--History.
LAW / General.
Constitutional amendments.
Constitutional history.
United States.
History.

Other Authors:

Codrington, Wilfred U., III, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- An imperfect Constitution -- The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804) -- The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870) -- The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920) -- The New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't -- The Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971) -- The 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't -- The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics -- The people's Constitution.

Summary:

"The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"-- Provided by publisher.
Who wrote the Constitution? We think it was the fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. Kowal and Codrington tell the story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. The result is an elegant, sobering account of the evolution of American democracy. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

1620975610
9781620975619

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142901847

LCCN:

2021022091

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)