What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans? (Historians at Work)
What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans? (Historians at Work)
ISBN: 9780312182625
出版社: Bedford/St. Martin's
出版年: 1999-01-15
页数: 192
定价: USD 16.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
What did the Constitution mean to early Americans? Ostensibly the foundational document of a sovereign American people, the U.S. Constitution affected different kinds of Americans in very different ways. Modern historians have investigated its impact on various groups in an effort to determine what the Constitution meant to the founding generation of Americans. Exploring how early Americans shaped, responded to, and debated the document, this volume's 5 selections attempt to gauge the Constitution's ultimate success in forging a government based on the consent of the American people.