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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

by Jack N. Rakove

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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.

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File size8 X 5.3 X 1.1 in
Print pages464
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date May 27, 1997
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780394578583
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Jack N. Rakove
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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...

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