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The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:John F. Kowal, Wilfred U. Codrington IIIPublish date:2021-09-21Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620975619ISBN-10:1620975610UPC:9781620975619Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Constitutional, United States, Legal HistorySize:9.13 x 5.98 x 1.65 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SCJS7QW1S5

The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution--the product of compromises and an artifact of its time--and made it more democratic

Who wrote the Constitution? That's obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries....

Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620975619ISBN-10:1620975610UPC:9781620975619Book Category:Law, HistoryBook Subcategory:Constitutional, United States, Legal HistorySize:9.13 x 5.98 x 1.65 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SCJS7QW1S5

Wilfred U. Codrington III is an assistant professor of law at Brooklyn Law School and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. His teaching and scholarship focus on constitutional law, election law, race, and antidiscrimination. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Law School, Codrington was an adjunct assistant professor of public service at New York University's Wagner...

Publisher: New Press

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