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Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution

byMax Edling

For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. Using archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, Perfecting the Union moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Perfecting the Union within history and law, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Perfecting the Union emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

200

ISBN

9780197534717