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Our Constitution: The Myth That Binds Us

Book by Eric Black; Westview Press, 1988

Subjects:

Constitutional History--United States--Popular Works, United States--Constitutional Convention--(1787)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...that binds us/by Eric...States -- Constitutional history -- Popular...myth than history. Yet it is...gives our Constitution the power to bind us and to bind...manager for the Constitution, he was brilliant...to Sell History is kind to...did get us into a war...
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The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant

Book by Thomas Holden; Clarendon Press, 2004

Subjects:

Matter--Constitution--History, Science--Philosophy--History

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...So we have an ultimate ground floor constitution of m-indivisible metaphysical atoms...number of parts and ( b ) have an ultimate constitution of metaphysical atoms. (Notice that the...fundamental ones. Naturally this will help us get clearer on the basic issues at stake...
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The American Constitution: The First Two Hundred Years, 1787-1987

Book by Joseph Smith; University of Exeter Press, 1987

Subjects:

Constitutional History--United States--Congresses, United States--Constitution--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...debates on the Constitution. The changes...highlight for us today the major...documents of US constitutional history, the Declaration...Since the Constitution became the central...focus of American history in this time...
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The Constitution Reconsidered

Book by Conyers Read; Columbia University Press, 1938

Subjects:

Constitutional History, Political Science--History, United States--Constitution, United States--Constitutional History, United States--Constitutional Law

Collections: Entire Library

...speak of a constitutional monarchy...others for us is a negative...The whole history of modern...part of its history; or it may...and federal constitutions, but in every...not blind us to the fact...vital for us here in...own present constitutional problems of this history of the past...
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A New Constitution for a New America

Book by William MacDonald; B. W. Huebsch inc, 1921

Subjects:

United States--Constitution, United States--Politics and government

Collections: Entire Library

...against hasty or impulsive action. The history of parliamentary government hardly bears...advance of the time at which, under the Constitution, an election must be held, unless the...the United States need not long detain us. So far as the election of members of...

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A "Uniform and Entire" Constitution; or, What If Madison Had Won?

Journal article by Edward Hartnett; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 15, 1998

Subjects:

Constitutional history--Political aspects, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, United States Constitution

Collections: Entire Library

...such event in our history, it could have happened...Madisons approach to constitutional amendment would...election, brings us full circle back...result, the scars of history are less immediately visible. But a constitution is not written for...generation has before us, and if the Constitution...
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Interpretation and Philosophy: Dworkin's Constitution

Journal article by Edward B. Foley; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 14, 1997

Subjects:

Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Dworkin, Ronald M.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Law--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...unpersuasive. Let us assume, as Dworkin...were added to the Constitution as terms of art...from the Nations history, including the specific...not fit American history or practice, or the rest of the Constitution." (p. 11) Of course...
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Puerto Rico and the Constitution: Conundrums and Prospects

Journal article by T. Alexander Aleinikoff; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 11, 1994

Subjects:

Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Dorr v. United States--195 U.S. 138 (1904), Downes v. Bidwell--182 U.S. 244 (1901), Harris v. Rosario--446 U.S. 651 (1980), Sovereignty--Analysis, Statehood (American politics)--Analysis, United States Constitution--U.S. Const. art. 4, s. 3, cl. 2

Collections: Entire Library

...legislative history provides a rather...subject to federal constitutional strictures...viewed as taking us only half the...legislative history that acts of...amendments to the Constitution comport with...legislative history of P.L. 600...the territorys constitutional status or...
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Democratizing the Constitution

Journal article by Peter Berkowitz; Policy Review, 2005

Subjects:

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...originalist theory of interpreting the Constitution. Contrary to his aim, which is to place...does so only in hard cases when text, history, and precedent prove inconclusive. Third, Breyer reminds us that textualism itself cannot close the...
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The Tenth Amendment among the Shadows: On Reading the Constitution in Plato's Cave

Journal article by Jay S. Bybee; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 23, 2000

Subjects:

Federalism--Laws, regulations, etc., United States Constitution--U.S. Const. amend. 10

Collections: Entire Library

...will provide us. Owing to its origins, the Constitution creates a federal...of the Courts history of substantive...committed to constitutional federalism, it...authority. The Courts history demonstrates...Amendment obligates us to make the effort...

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Writing It Down: Gordon Brown's Promised Written Constitution-If It Happens-Won't Be the First in British History, as Patrick Little Reminds Us

Magazine article by Patrick Little; History Today, Vol. 58, January 2008

Subjects:

British constitution--Laws, regulations and rules, Brown, Gordon (British politician)--Laws, regulations and rules, Brown, Gordon (British politician)--Powers and duties, Prime ministers--Laws, regulations and rules, Prime ministers--Powers and duties

Collections: History, Entire Library

...First in British History, as Patrick Little Reminds Us. by Patrick...famously, has no written constitution, relying instead...without a written constitution, but with explicitly...research fellow at the History of Parliament Trust...
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Our Most Important Export - the U.S. Constitution Is a Model for the Governments of Other Nations

Magazine article by Albert P. Blaustein; World and I, Vol. 18, February 2003

Subjects:

Constitutional history--International aspects, Constitutional interpretation, Constitutional law--History, Constitutional law--Influence, Constitutional law--International aspects, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Models, United States Constitution

Collections: Entire Library

...returned to Venezuela in 1810 to work with Bolivar to establish a Latin American government based on the U.S. Constitution. History tells us that Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile formed their first constitutions in 1811, one year before Spains Cadiz...
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Voters Reject EU Constitution: The European Union's Governing Elite Are Stunned by French and Dutch Voters' Rejection of the EU Constitution, but Refuse to Give Up Their Globalist Schemes

Magazine article by William F. Jasper; The New American, Vol. 21, June 27, 2005

Subjects:

Constitutional amendments--Ratification, Constitutional ratification, European Constitution (Draft), European Union--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...will respect the wishes of the French voters. Sadly, history has shown us that in referendums on EU issues, no does not necessarily...battle has been won but the war itself goes on. The Constitution certainly isnt dead yet...." Like the vampire in...
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Looking at the Constitution; Could Meese Be Right This Time?

Magazine article by Sanford Levinson; The Nation, Vol. 243, December 20, 1986

Subjects:

Constitutional interpretation, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Interpretation and construction, Meese, Edwin--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United States Constitution

Collections: Entire Library

...Such comparisons help us understand recurrent...fundamental aspects of the Constitution. The rich history of disagreement in...motives should not lead us to dismiss as unworthy...serious reflection the constitutional perspective that he...
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Europe and the New Constitution

Magazine article by Peter C. Hylarides; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, November 2004

Subjects:

Constitutions--Analysis, Constitutions--Europe, Constitutions--Political aspects, Europe--Laws, regulations and rules, Europe--Politics and government, European Constitution (Draft)

Collections: Entire Library

...high degree of discontent with the European Union. The new constitution, contrary to promises made earlier, has not made the EU more...as high as 50 per cent, as plainly saying yes. This brings us back to the beginning of this article, where Fraser Cameron...

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From Fast Food to Political Intrigue; Power Play: Governer Morris (Trystan Gravelle), One of the Architects of the US Constitution, and His Mistress Sarah (Rhiannon Oliver) in We the People by Eric Schlosser, Below

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 21, 2007

Subjects:

Restaurant industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...theAmerican constitution in 1776? Why...deals with the US, which is everyone...studied American historyas an undergraduate...toshape the constitution, in a way which...partsof our history," Schlosser...andprevented the constitutional debate from...very rare in history that you see...
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Secession's Apologists Gut Constitution, History

Newspaper article by Mackubin Thomas Owens; The Washington Times, July 22, 2000

Subjects:

Lincoln, Abraham

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...thorough treatment of U.S. constitutional history. It dissolves, however, into a hash...of Independence is transformed into a constitutional right to destroy the Constitution...steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American...
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History Can Prove Us Right, or Wrong

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 8, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a Portland antique store. History too often is dates and events...houses, and found nothing to suit us until after dark. This evening...the amendment to the national constitution to permit Negroes to become...finally, an entry that reminds us that, if "then" seems awfully...
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Public May Not Get a Vote on EU Constitution, Says No 10

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 19, 2007

Subjects:

European Constitution (Draft)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to sign treaties for the first time in history. Four years ago in a ballot organised...bypass the British public and ram this constitution through without anyone noticing. The constitution...and seek to deport those who threatened us. But Tory MPs accused him of hypocrisy...
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Constitution the Prelude to Statehood

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 31, 2007

Subjects:

Oregon. Constitution, United States. Congress--Political activity

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...students of Oregon history - Jesse Applegate...significant legacy in the constitution that they drafted...arcweb?.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/1857...exhibits remind us that our constitution is a living, breathing piece of our history that gives us a...

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Mass , in Christianity

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...prayer amplifying the supplication "Deliver us from evil," the symbolic breaking of the...variants eliminated. As a result of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican...Roman Rite (rev. ed. 1959); F. Amiot, History of the Mass (tr. 1959); H. Daniel-Rops...

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