Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next Sunday Philadelphia has scheduled a hot-air balloon race that will cross the city and end in New Jersey; 13 balloons, representing the 13 original states will vie for the title of the nation's No. 1 gas bag. Representatives of Congress are expected to hold a symbolic meeting...
"I do not believe," Marshall went on, "that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia convention." The document required "several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we...
The founders meeting in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 invented a true U.S. Ever since, the country has gone on inventing and reinventing itself -- the Constitution shaping the nation, a changing America rethinking the Constitution. The one time the Constitution proved inadequate to the task, in the 1860s, half...
The framers of the Constitution could not possibly have foreseen the America of the late 20th century, with its enormous national Government, its multinational corporations, its crime, computer technology, genetic engineering, pollution, mass media, nuclear weapons and the rest. Madison did not permit the notes that he made during the...
For someone unfamiliar with the detailed story of the Constitution's birth, no book better combines the virtues of logical organization, responsible brevity and pleasant reading than A More Perfect Union. Though neither constitutional scholars nor well-read dilettantes are likely to discover previously hidden treasures here, they will find...