Papers originally presented at a colloquium on the American Constitution held at the University of Exeter on 6-7 November 1986. Includes bibliographies.
Contents:
British and European background to the ideas of the Constitution / Iain Hampsher-Monk -- The making of the Constitution / Michael Duffy -- Articles of Confederation in American political thought / Lyman Tower Sargent -- American politics and the Constitution, 1800-1830 / Michael Heale -- American nationalism and the nineteenth-century Constitution / Peter J. Parish -- Political parties and the Constitution in the twentieth century / Dean McSweeney -- Making the Constitution's meaning fit for the 1980s / Richard Hodder-Williams.
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