Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States

by William Jeffrey and William Crosskey

Book Overview

When the first two volumes of William Crosskey's monumental study of the Constitution appeared in 1953, Arthur M. Schlesinger called it "perhaps the most fertile commentary on that document since The Federalist papers." It was highly controversial as well. The work was a comprehensive reassessment of the meaning of the Constitution, based on examination of eighteenth-century usages of key political and legal concepts and terms. Crosskey's basic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226121348
• ISBN13: 9780226121345
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 2025 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.3"