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Liberty and union : a constitutional history of the United States Cover Image Book Book

Liberty and union : a constitutional history of the United States / Edgar J. McManus and Tara Helfman.

McManus, Edgar J. (Author). Helfman, Tara, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780415892827 (v. 1 : hbk)
  • ISBN: 0415892821 (v. 1 : hbk)
  • ISBN: 9780415892834 (v. 1 : pbk)
  • ISBN: 041589283X (v. 1 : pbk)
  • ISBN: 9780415892841 (v. 2 : hbk)
  • ISBN: 0415892848 (v. 2 : hbk)
  • ISBN: 9780415892858 (v. 2 : pbk)
  • ISBN: 0415892856 (v. 2 : pbk)
  • ISBN: 0203435877 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 9780203435878 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 1136756604 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781136756603 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1136757236 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781136757235 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1136757163 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781136757167 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Vol. 1: English and colonial origins -- Independence and nationhood -- A more perfect union -- Launching the new government -- Jeffersonian republicanism -- John Marshall and judicial nationalism -- Majority rule and sectional rights -- More power to the states -- Slavery and the Constitution -- The crisis of the union -- Reconstructing the nation -- Promises betrayed -- Property rights and judicial activism -- Vol. 2: Progressivism and the new nationalism -- World War I and the Constitution -- Normalcy and reaction -- The New Deal revolution -- The new constitutionalism -- World War II and the Constitution -- The era of the Cold War -- Earl Warren takes the helm -- A decade of change and progress -- The new judicial activism -- Nationalizing criminal due process -- And era of discord and crisis -- Progress on first amendment rights -- Civil rights and affirmative action -- Protecting individual liberty -- Criminal due process after Warren -- Civilizing the death penalty -- Politics and the Constitution -- The new millennium -- The Roberts court.

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Subject: Constitutional history > United States.
Liberty.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library KF 4541 .M36 2014 v.1 30775305484009 General Collection Available -
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