num_pages: 826
description: Americas Founding Fathers were not just statesmenthey were intellectuals who knew the importance of their ideas and how best to communicate them to the American public. In the speeches and addresses they made and in the editorials essays and pamphlets they published we see them expressing the principles by which they wished to define their new nation and reaching consensus about the best form of government that would endure and sustain the republic well beyond their own time. Much of what they spoke and wrote gave rise to the laws by which American is still governed today.This volume collects more than forty documents that played a crucial role in spurring the revolt of the thirteen original colonies against their mother country England and forging those colonies into the United States of America a new country whose people shared common goals and interests manifested in the government they had created to uphold the laws of their republic. In these documents we see the articulation evolution and refinement of the democratic ideals by which America is recognized.
language: English
title: The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers
publisher: Barnes & Noble