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Title: The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development, Seventh Edition, Volume II by Alfred H. Kelly, Herman Belz, Winifred A. Harbison ISBN: 0-393-96119-2 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.70 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A history of constitutional law
Comment: Unlike constitutional law classes, which teach you how to litigate the present, this book (or more accurately, these two volumes -- vol 2 isn't up at the moment) is a good complement to what is taught as constitutional law in law school. But a law school education isn't necessary to appreciate these books; they provide a context that can be appreciated by themselves.
The first volume (the red one) covers the history of constitutions from the earliest colonial covenants up to the Civil War. The second volume (the blue one) covers the Reconstruction (including the Johnson impeachment and the 1876 presidential controversy) up through the Iran-Contra and up until the early 90s (at least in my volume).
The tone of the works treats the Constitution as almost like a new world colony, upon which one or another group stakes its flag on a certain clause therein, and then chronicling the history of such claims over time. The constitutional right to own slaves came and went. The economic due process decisions came and went. The New Deal excesses came and went. The Warren Court changes have come, and many of them have now gone.
The constitution is not left unchanged, but it is not changed as much as the ideologues in each of those eras would have liked. As long as we can hope that there is something in the constitution that we can hope will outlast the public demand of the moment, the better the chances are that the republic will survive.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough, analytical, and highly insightful.
Comment: This book is a must read for those interested in understanding the evolutionary development of the American Constitution. Not only do the authors provide understandable interpretations of significant Supreme Court decisions, but they also capture the Zeitgeist which also played a major role. This book is well researched and written for scholars and non-scholars alike. Highly recommended for anyone interested in American history.
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Title: Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series) by Kermit Hall ISBN: 0669212105 Publisher: D.C. Heath Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $41.96 |
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Title: The Supreme Court and the Constitution: Readings in American Constitutional History by Stanley I. Kutler ISBN: 0393954374 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Romanticism: Points of View by Robert F. Gleckner ISBN: 0814315437 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1975 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: British Literature: 1780 - 1830 by Anne K. Mellor, Richard E. Matlak ISBN: 0155002600 Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers Pub. Date: 15 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Stephen Charles Gill ISBN: 039309071X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 List Price(USD): $20.60 |
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