The Madisonian Constitution

by George Thomas

Today, we think of constitutional questions as being settled by the Supreme Court.
But that is not always the case, nor is it what the framers intended in constructing the three-branch federal government. This volume examines four crucial moments in the United States' political history--the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency and the New Deal, and the Reagan revolution--to illustrate the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801888522
• ISBN13: 9780801888526
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"