Original Meanings
Subtitle: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 27, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780679781219
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; Interpretation and construction; General; History; Politics / Current Events; United States - General; History: American; USA; Civil Procedure; History / United States / General; Constitutional law; United States - 19th Century; Constitutional history; United States
First sentence: THE INFANT PERIODS of most nations are buried in silence, or veiled in fable," James Madison observed in July 1819; "and perhaps the world may have lost but little which it need regret."