Toward A More Perfect Union: Six Essays on the Constitution
- ISBN-10
- 1438424671
- ISBN-13
- 9781438424675
- Series
- Toward a More Perfect Union
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 188
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Author
- Neil L. York
Description
Toward a More Perfect Union is the last of a three-volume series examining the Constitutionas it was drafted and ratified, and the uses made of it over the past two hundred years. Each volume includes essays first presented at conferences on the Bicentennial of the Constitution held at Brigham Young University in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and several additional essays written especially for these anthologies.
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- 1988-01-01
- 292 pages
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- 2006
- 338 pages
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- 2002
- 269 pages
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- 1996
- 264 pages
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- Oxford University Press on Demand
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