The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from the Federalist Papers

204 Pages·2011·0.97 MB·English

by  Richard Beeman

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page

CHAPTER ONE - THE REVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN
CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER TWO - AMERICA STRUGGLES TO ACHIEVE
INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY, AND UNION
CHAPTER THREE - THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1787
CHAPTER FOUR - THE CONTEST OVER RATIFICATION
CHAPTER FIVE - ESTABLISHING GOVERNMENT UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION, 1789-1801
CHAPTER SIX - SUPREME COURT DECISIONS THAT HAVE SHAPED
AMERICA’S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

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RICHARD BEEMAN, currently a professor of history at the University of
Pennsylvania, has previously served as the chair of the Department of History,
associate dean in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, and dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences. He serves as a trustee of the National Constitution Center and
is chair of the Constitution Center’s Committee on Programs, Exhibits, and
Education. Author of six previous books, Professor Beeman has received
numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Huntington Library. His biography of
Patrick Henry was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is, most recently,
the author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution.

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The Penguin guide to the United States Constitution : a fully annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S.
Constitution and amendments, and selections from The Federalist Papers / Richard Beeman. p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-10145900-3
1. Constitutional history—United States. 2. Constitutional history—United States—Sources. I. Beeman,
Richard R. II. Penguin Books USA, Inc. III. Title: Guide to the United States Constitution. IV. Title: United
States Constitution.
KF4541.P46 2010
342.7302’9—dc22 2010015820

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A NOTE ON THE TEXT

THE TEXTS IN THIS EDITION ARE BASED on the transcriptions of the
Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution in the National Archives
and Records Administration and on Jacob E. Cooke’s edition of The Federalist
Papers. In some cases the punctuation in the documents reprinted in this edition
has been altered for purposes of consistency and clarity; the eighteenth-century
spelling in the original documents has been retained. Following the practice in
Jacob E. Cooke’s The Federalist, the Penguin edition omits the original titles in
each of the three essays reproduced from The Federalist Papers.