Amending America (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jerome Agel, Richard B. Bernstein
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1787 to the present
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Slavery or slaves, Law or legislation, Constitutional law, Presidents, Congresses or conventions, Constitutions
- Locales: United States
The United States Constitution remains as the oldest written constitution in continuous operation anywhere in the world. Originally designed to address the needs of a small and young nation of about four million people, it now governs the most powerful nation on earth.
One of the central questions raised by the authors of Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? is whether the Framers were intent on producing a document to endure “for all time” or simply to address the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation, the...
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