Essays on the Constitution from the AHA
This series of essays, edited for the AHA by Herman Belz, traces the history of the Constitution and examines the principal institutions that have shaped its role and application.
Herman Belz is a professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Constitutional Development in a Modernizing Society: The United States, 1803-1917
WILLIAM M. WIECEK
The author reviews the dilemmas faced by the 19th-century American government as it attempted to adapt the Constitution to the changing demands of an increasingly complex society. The relationships of nationalism, slavery, industrialization, capitalism, and imperialism to the constitutional order are also examined.
William M. Wiecek is Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of Public Law and Legislation at the College of Law and a professor of history in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
1985. 89 pages
ISBN 0-87229-027-1
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The Constitution and Economic Change
JONATHAN LURIE
This concise overview analyzes key economic policies, as articulated in legal doctrine, that have shaped U.S. economic trends for more than two centuries. Also explored are the unwritten assumptions that governed the framing of the Constitution's provisions for the new nation's economic structure.
Jonathan Lurie is a professor of history at Rutgers University at Newark.
1988. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-041-7
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The Constitution in the Twentieth Century
PAUL L. MURPHY
This essay investigates the dramatic changes in the Constitution's role in public policy and the disputes over proper constitutional interpretation between World War I and the 1980s.
Paul L. Murphy was a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and lecturer in legal history at the Hamline University Law School.
1986. 68 pages
ISBN 0-87229-036-0
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