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The revolutionary constitution

"The framers of the Constitution chose their words carefully when they wrote of a more perfect union--not absolutely perfect, but with room for improvement. Indeed, we no longer operate under the same Constitution as that ratified in 1788, or even the one completed by the Bill of Rights in 1791...

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Main Author:	Bodenhamer, David J.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Constitutional history > United States. Constitutional law > United States. United States > Politics and government. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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