History | United States
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
by Jack N. Rakove 2021-01-01 12:46:30
image1
COMPARE PRICE
From gay rights and same-sex marriage to abortion and equal rights, today's hottest political debates all go back to this essential issue: What did the United States Constitution really mean and who understands its meaning best? For this document... Read more

From gay rights and same-sex marriage to abortion and equal rights, today's hottest political debates all go back to this essential issue: What did the United States Constitution really mean and who understands its meaning best? For this document means different things at different times to different groups of Americans. Jack N. Rakove chronicles the Constitution from its birth to ratification in Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. This Pulitzer Prize-winning history focuses on James Madison, who shaped the Constitution's framing and examines the particular influence of all the framers of this document. Rakove is the Coe Professor of History at Stanford University.

Less
  • File size
  • Print pages
  • Publisher
  • Publication date
  • Language
  • ISBN
  • 8 X 5.3 X 1.1 in
  • 464
  • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • May 27, 1997
  • English
  • 9780394578583
autor-image
Jack N. Rakove
Author
Jack Norman Rakove (born June 4, 1947) is an American historian, author, and professor at Stanford University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. Rakove was born in Chicago to Political Science Professor...
Compare Prices
image
Buy USD 4.77
image
Paperback
Buy CAD 16.19
Available Discount
No Discount available
Related Books
view all
image1
The Fireside Chats:
image1
The Treaty Held With the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742:
image1
American Negro Slavery - a Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime:
image1
The Red Record:
image1
Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts:
image1
The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776:
image1
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
image1
Lord Loveland Discovers America:
image1
First Across the Continent:
image1
A Historic Sketch, Lest We Forget Company 'E,' 26th Ohio Infantry in the War for the Union, 1861-65:
image1
American Men of Action:
image1
Janice Meredith; A Story of the American Revolution:
image1
Great Epochs in American History: Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations: 1000;:
image1
A Battery at Close Quarters: A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, October 6, 1909:
image1
The Abolition of Slavery the Right of the Government Under the War Power:
image1
Woman on the American Frontier:
image1
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and His Trial by the Senate for High Crimes:
image1
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington:
image1
A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs:
image1
The story of Manhattan:
image1
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503:
image1
Diplomatic Days:
image1
The Beginner's American History:
image1
Stories of Later American History:
image1
Mob Rule in New Orleans:

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS