Toward A More Perfect Union

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Toward A More Perfect Union
Six Essays on the Constitution

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Neil L. York - Editor

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 188 pages

Release Date: January 1989

ISBN10: 0-88706-925-8
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-925-3

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 188 pages

Release Date: December 1988

ISBN10: 0-88706-926-6
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-926-0

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Summary

Toward a More Perfect Union is the last of a three-volume series examining the Constitution--as it was drafted and ratified, and the uses made of it over the past two hundred years. Each volume includes essays first presented at conferences on the Bicentennial of the Constitution held at Brigham Young University in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and several additional essays written especially for these anthologies.

Contributors

Lance Banning is a Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Gary C. Bryner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. John P. Diggins is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Thomas C. Grey is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Peter S. Onuf is a Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Richard Vetterli is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. Gordon S. Wood is a Professor of History at Brown University. The editor, Neil L. York, is an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. The Political Ideology of the Founders
Gordon S. Wood

II. Consitutional Politics: States, Sections, and the National Interest
Peter S. Onuf

III. 1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the Revolution
Lance Banning

IV. Religion, Public Virtue, and the Founding of the American Republic
Richard Vetterli and Gary C. Bryner

V. Recovering "First Principles": Critical Perspectives on the Constitution and the Fate of Classical Republicanism
John Patrick Diggins

VI. The Original Understanding and the Unwritten Constitution
Thomas C. Grey