Me the People, Or, One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
- ISBN-10
- 1400069351
- ISBN-13
- 9781400069354
- Category
- Constitutional history
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Random House Incorporated
- Author
- Kevin Bleyer
Description
Presents an offbeat revision of the U.S. Constitution that reflects twenty-first century realities and addresses unresolved questions while describing the author's research into ancient Greece's early practices of democracy.
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