TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powell,Jefferson
TI  - A community built on words: the constitution in history and politics 
SN  - 9780226677224
AV  - KF4550 .P66 2002
U1  - 342.7302 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago, [Ill.]
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - United States of America, USA
KW  - thema
KW  - 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799
KW  - 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
KW  - 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
KW  - History: specific events & topics
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes index; Specialized
N2  - Combining history and theory, Powell analyzes a series of constitutional controversies from 1790 to 1944 to demonstrate that constitutional law from its very beginning has involved politically charged and ideologically divisive arguments. Nowhere in America's past can one find the golden age of apolitical constitutional thinking that a great deal of contemporary scholarship seeks or presupposes. Viewed over time, American constitutional law is a history of political dispute couched in constitutional terms
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ER  -