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A New Constitution for a New America

Author : William MacDonald
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230337852
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book A New Constitution for a New America written by William MacDonald and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI WIDENING THE POWERS OF CONGRESS It has generally been regarded as one of the great virtues of the American Constitution that the powers which it granted to the President, to Congress, or to the courts were in most instances phrased in broad and general terms, and thus could be applied, without doing violence to their obvious meaning, to changing social conditions. The grant to Congress for example, of the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes," has proved sufficient, it has been pointed out, for the days of the stage-coach and the days of the railway, for those of the sailing vessel and those of the steamship. But for this adaptability to changing circumstances the Constitution would have been much more frequently amended than it has been, and the amendments would certainly have taken a wider range. Not even the American Constitution, however, is perfect. The lapse of time, the experience acquired in working the constitutional machinery, strained and inconsistent interpretations by the courts and by the executive, and the rise of new issues or the development of new social conditions which the framers of the Constitution could by no possibility have foreseen, have combined to reveal certain important defects or limitations in the Constitution which should now be remedied. Some of those defects and limitations which concern the Constitution itself have already been considered. Those which concern Congress, especially as that body would be under a responsible government, remain to be discussed. i. Corporations. The Constitution gives to Congress no direct power to create corporations. The famous controversy in 1791, however, over the incorporation of the first...

A New Constitution for a New America

Author : William MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A New Constitution for a New America written by William MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Form a More Perfect Union

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book To Form a More Perfect Union written by Craig R. Smith and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research on the emergence of the Bill of Rights from the constitutional ratification debates through to adoption of the first ten amendments of the Constitution. Its aim is to answer the following questions: when did Americans first see the need for a Bill of Rights? Who provided the inspiration for its enactment? What were the circumstances that led to the proposing of a Bill of Rights? And why is it important for us to understand how our Bill of Rights came into existence? This study begins in Europe in 1456 with the historical framework that traces the evolution of the Bill of Rights; it ends with the ratification of ten amendments to the new United States Constitution in December of 1791. Co-published with the Center for First Amendment Studies.

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Author : Charles A. Beard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140458
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by : Charles A. Beard

Download or read book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States written by Charles A. Beard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study — one of the most influential in the area of American economic history — questioned the founding fathers' motivations and prompted new perceptions of the supreme law of the land.

Making a New American Constitution

Author : George William Van Cleve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735548906
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Making a New American Constitution written by George William Van Cleve and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about constitutional reform. Today the Constitution is a dangerous threat to Abraham Lincoln's vision of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It served the United States well during its early years, but has numerous remarkably undemocratic features. And the Constitution has an even graver overarching flaw. It is preventing us from making reforms needed to address the collapse of the middle class and to renew our rapidly decaying social bonds. The Constitution is a massive obstruction to national unity and to our country's survival.Today we are a multicultural, racially diverse, heavily urbanized society. And we are now in danger of being governed permanently by a wealthy oligarchy. Our middle class is headed toward collapse, and our democracy cannot survive its demise. Steadily deteriorating socioeconomic conditions facing millions of poor and middle-class Americans are almost certain to result in a political crisis that may weaken or shatter our union.To avoid such a catastrophe, it will be essential for us to make extensive political, social, and economic reforms based on constitutional changes that will enable all Americans to view their government as truly fair and firmly committed to creating equal life opportunities and justice for everyone, not just for one elite class or dominant race. This book explains why the Constitution is a major obstacle to reform, and what we will need to do to create a resilient democracy. It takes a deep look at the Constitution's undemocratic features, and then explores why the Constitution also makes unworkable piecemeal reforms, such as a constitutional amendment to take money out of politics or a balanced budget amendment. The time to change our government has come. Americans can and must hold a popular convention that can achieve a constitutional grand bargain resolving divisive issues, which will renew republican government and avoid permanent authoritarian rule by a wealthy oligarchy. The book explores how a popular convention can be held, and proposes a series of essential constitutional reforms.

A New Constitution for a New America

Author : William MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book A New Constitution for a New America written by William MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A More Perfect Constitution

Author : Larry J. Sabato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777562
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Constitution written by Larry J. Sabato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reader can't help but hold out hope that maybe someday, some of these sweeping changes could actually bring the nation's government out of its intellectual quagmire...his lively, conversational tone and compelling examples make the reader a more than willing student for this updated civics lesson." --The Hill The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for politics at the University of Virginia. A More Perfect Constitution presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political minds of our time to reinvigorate our Constitution and American governance at a time when such change is urgently needed, given the growing dysfunction and unfairness of our political system . Combining idealism and pragmatism, and with full respect for the original document, Larry Sabato's thought-provoking ideas range from the length of the president's term in office and the number and terms of Supreme Court justices to the vagaries of the antiquated Electoral College, and a compelling call for universal national service-all laced through with the history behind each proposal and the potential impact on the lives of ordinary people. Aware that such changes won't happen easily, but that the original Framers fully expected the Constitution to be regularly revised, Sabato urges us to engage in the debate and discussion his ideas will surely engender. During an election year, no book is more relevant or significant than this.

To Form a More Perfect Union

Author : Robert Allen McGuire
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195139704
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book To Form a More Perfect Union written by Robert Allen McGuire and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many important questions regarding the creation and adoption of the United States Constitution remain unresolved. Did slaveholdings or financial holdings significantly influence our Founding Fathers' stance on particular clauses or rules contained in the Constitution? Was there a division of support for the Constitution related to religious beliefs or ethnicity? Were founders from less commercial areas more likely to oppose the Constitution? To Form a More Perfect Union successfully answers these questions and offers an economic explanation for the behavior of our Founding Fathers during the nation's constitutional founding. In 1913, American historian Charles A. Beard controversially argued in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States that the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution were less interested in furthering democratic principles than in advancing specific economic and financial interests. Beard's thesis eventually emerged as the standard historical interpretation and remained so until the 1950s. Since then, many constitutional and historical scholars have questioned an economic interpretation of the Constitution as being too narrow or too calculating, believing the great principles and political philosophies that motivated the Founding Fathers to be worthier subjects of study. In this meticulously researched reexamination of the drafting and ratification of our nation's Constitution, Robert McGuire argues that Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Mason and the other Founding Fathers did act as much for economic motives as for abstract ideals. To Form a More Perfect Union offers compelling evidence showing that the economic, financial, and other interests of the founders can account for the specific design and adoption of our Constitution. This is the first book to provide modern evidence that substantiates many of the overall conclusions found in Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation while challenging and overturning other of Beard's specific findings. To Form a More Perfect Union presents an entirely new approach to the study of the shaping of the U.S. Constitution. Through the application of economic thinking and rigorous statistical techniques, as well as the processing of vast amounts of data on the economic interests and personal characteristics of the Founding Fathers, McGuire convincingly demonstrates that an economic interpretation of the Constitution is valid. Radically challenging the prevailing views of most historians, political scientists, and legal scholars, To Form a More Perfect Union provides a wealth of new findings about the Founding Fathers' constitutional choices and sheds new light on the motivations behind the design and adoption of the United States Constitution.

The People’s Constitution

Author : John F. Kowal
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620975629
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The People’s Constitution written by John F. Kowal and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: 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. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.

America's Unwritten Constitution

Author : Akhil Reed Amar
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465029574
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book America's Unwritten Constitution written by Akhil Reed Amar and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading between the lines: America's implicit Constitution -- Heeding the deed: America's enacted Constitution -- Hearing the people: America's lived Constitution -- Confronting modern case law: America's "warrented" Constitution -- Putting precedent in its place: America's doctrinal Constitution -- Honoring the icons: America's symbolic Constitution -- "Remembering the ladies" : America's feminist Constitution -- Following Washington's lead: America's "Georgian" Constitution -- Interpreting government practices: America's institutional Constitution -- Joining the party: America's partisan Constitution -- Doing the right thing: America's conscientious Constitution -- Envisioning the future: America's unfinished Constitution -- Afterward -- Appendix: America's written Constitution.

A New Constitution for a New America (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Macdonald
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484027731
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book A New Constitution for a New America (Classic Reprint) written by William Macdonald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Constitution for a New America Senators by popular vote, both of which were adopted in 1913. The Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, adopted in 1919 but not effective until 1920, and the Nineteenth Amendment, which did away with sex discrimination in voting, adopted in 1920, completed the list. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

What Does New America Need? Topics of the Constitutional Convention | American Constitution Book Grade 4 | Children's Government Books

Author : Universal Politics
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541977882
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book What Does New America Need? Topics of the Constitutional Convention | American Constitution Book Grade 4 | Children's Government Books written by Universal Politics and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America suffered under a powerful government so they were afraid to give too much power on any government for fear of another war. It’s interesting how their rules and laws gradually evolved to ensure equality while at the same time delegating sufficient power and authority to a central government. Most of these decisions were made during the Constitutional Convention. Turn the pages of this book to learn more

The Federalist Papers

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528785878
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.

A New Constitution for a New America

Author : William 1863-1938 MacDonald
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015329393
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book A New Constitution for a New America written by William 1863-1938 MacDonald and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Plan of the New Constitution for the United States of America, Agreed Upon in a Convention of the States

Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Plan of the New Constitution for the United States of America, Agreed Upon in a Convention of the States written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plain, Honest Men

Author : Richard Beeman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812976843
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Plain, Honest Men written by Richard Beeman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."

Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America

Author : Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
Publisher : RCP Publications (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9780898510072
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America by : Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

Download or read book Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America written by Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. and published by RCP Publications (IL). This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Constitution is written with the future in mind. It is intended to set forth a basic model, and fundamental principles and guidelines, for the nature and functioning of a vastly different society and government than now exists: a socialist state which would embody, institutionalize and promote radically different relations and values among people; a socialist state whose fundamental aim, together with revolutionary struggle throughout the world, would be the emancipation of humanity as a whole. Original.