American Founding Documents Interpreted
by
Richard B. Bernstein, Thomas E. Burke, Leo Hershkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays...