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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |  | Author: Jack N. Rakove
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 90521
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 0.9 x 8
ISBN: 0679781218
EAN: 9780679781219
ASIN: 0679781218
Publication Date: May 27, 1997
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Product Description
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.
Amazon.com Review
Imagine, for a preposterous moment, that 55 national leaders convened to write a document to guide the country for hundreds of years. It seems unlikely--given that our current contingent of so-called leaders can't agree on how to balance a checkbook--that they could reach consensus on such issues as the allotment of congressional seats. The political and ideological issues that faced the creators of the Constitution were similar in some ways to those at play today. And in some ways they were vastly different ones. Jack Rakove, a history professor at Stanford University, has in this book framed the process that led to the drafting of the constitution in its historical and political context to offer insight into the difficulty of interpreting that most influential of documents.
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