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For Ourselves and Our Posterity

The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History

For Ourselves and Our Posterity( )
Author: Hoffer, Peter Charles
Series title:Critical Historical Encounters Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-989953-1
Publication Date:Aug 2012
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.99
Book Description:

In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early American history. Over the course of five days in September 1787, five men serving on an ad hoc "Committee of Style and Arrangement" edited the draft of the federal Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, profoundly recasting the wording of the Preamble. In so doing, the committee changed...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Constitutions
Law / Constitutional
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.1 x 5.5 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.587 Pounds



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