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Nature and History in American Political Development
In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, political scientist James Ceaser traces the way certain ideas, including nature, history, and religion—which he …
Cambridge Companion to The Federalist
The eighty-five Federalist essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison as 'Publius' to support the ratification of the Constitution in 1787-88 are regarded as …
Ecrire l'histoire du droit
Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion
Today, Americans believe that the early colonists came to the New World in search of religious liberty. What we often forget is that they wanted religious liberty for themselves, …
The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
Here in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the …
Beginnings of National Politics
Originally published in 1982. Despite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body …
A Politician Thinking
James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787 - …
Revolutionaries
In this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating …
Revolutionaries
“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker). In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living …
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
" A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize-winner (The New Yorker). Revolutionaries makes us think afresh about how the country came …
The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty
In the wake of the 2000 Election, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the American states has become more important. Once derided by the Court as a 'truism,' the Tenth …