The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War


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Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.










The Heritage Guide to the Constitution


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A landmark work of more than one hundred scholars, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution is a unique line-by-line analysis explaining every clause of America's founding charter and its contemporary meaning. In this fully revised second edition, leading scholars in law, history, and public policy offer more than two hundred updated and incisive essays on every clause of the Constitution. From the stirring words of the Preamble to the Twenty-seventh Amendment, you will gain new insights into the ideas that made America, important debates that continue from our Founding, and the Constitution's true meaning for our nation




A More Perfect Union


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Reprint. Originally published : Washington, D.C. : National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1978.







The Works


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The Western Jurist


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Includes "Table of cases determined in the Supreme Court of Iowa and published in v. 19-29 Iowa reports" (v. 5, Sept. 1871) and the Constitution and the Proceedings of the Iowa State Bar Association, 1874-78.