A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American ConstitutionHarperCollins, 20. okt. 2003 - 322 strani Historian Carol Berkin's A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution is a rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future. "Just as the Constitution was a brilliant solution to the problems of the 1780s, Carol Berkin's book is a brilliant account of the making of that constitution. Written with great verve and clarity, it nicely captures all the contingency and unpredictability in the framing of the Constitution."—Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood Though the American Revolution is widely recognized as our nation's founding story, the years immediately following the war — when our government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis — were in fact the most crucial in establishing the country's independence. The group of men who traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 had no idea what kind of history their meeting would make. But all their ideas, arguments, and compromises — from the creation of the Constitution itself, article by article, to the insistence that it remain a living, evolving document — laid the foundation for a government that has surpassed the founders' greatest hopes. Revisiting all the original historical documents of the period and drawing from her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century politics, Carol Berkin opens up the hearts and minds of America's founders, revealing the issues they faced, the times they lived in, and their humble expectations of success. |
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... force of any sort, military or civil, the restoration of law and order was in doubt. Even worse, a political disorder on the highest levels had reached critical proportions. The cooperation among the states, forged in the 1770s and ...
... force of any sort, military or civil, the restoration of law and order was in doubt. Even worse, a political disorder on the highest levels had reached critical proportions. The cooperation among the states, forged in the 1770s and ...
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... force. In this way, they invited their neighbors to share responsibility for the fate of their experiment in representative government. It is this story of anxious but determined men who set for themselves the task of saving their ...
... force. In this way, they invited their neighbors to share responsibility for the fate of their experiment in representative government. It is this story of anxious but determined men who set for themselves the task of saving their ...
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... South and in New England. Two major British military campaigns had left the Carolinas in shambles, with scores of homeless and penniless still to be cared for. Rice planters had to replace much of their labor force A Brilliant Solution 13.
... South and in New England. Two major British military campaigns had left the Carolinas in shambles, with scores of homeless and penniless still to be cared for. Rice planters had to replace much of their labor force A Brilliant Solution 13.
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... force as hundreds of slaves had run away or found refuge in British army camps. Farther north peace, not war, had dealt ... forces, dividing the nation. While state governments debated what to do, private citizens took matters into their ...
... force as hundreds of slaves had run away or found refuge in British army camps. Farther north peace, not war, had dealt ... forces, dividing the nation. While state governments debated what to do, private citizens took matters into their ...
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... force the British out or to prevent either foreign nation from abetting the Indians. Britain's firm quid pro quo for giving up the western forts was the repayment by American planters and merchants of personal debts to British creditors ...
... force the British out or to prevent either foreign nation from abetting the Indians. Britain's firm quid pro quo for giving up the western forts was the repayment by American planters and merchants of personal debts to British creditors ...
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