The American Revolution and the Constitution (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by AEI Press, 2026
Series: Book 7 of 8 - America at 250
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Paperback. Featuring original essays by Jack N. Rakove, Akhil Reed Amar, Adam J. White, Colleen A. Sheehan, and Harvey C. Mansfield. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversaryof American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it hasnot been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a majorintellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the uniquevalue of their national inheritance. In the seventh volume of this series, scholars of American history, law, and politics discuss how the AmericanRevolution unleashed the forces of constitution-making in the United States. Asstates erected new governments in the wake of independence, they worked tocombine traditions of colonial self-government with both classical and novelpolitical theories. Studying the revolutionary period shows how it gave birth to a constitutional culture that shaped the delegates and debates that would forge the nation's enduring Constitution in 1787. In the seventh volume of this series, scholars of American history, law, and politics discuss how the American Revolution unleashed the forces of constitution-making in the United States. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The American Revolution and the Constitution (Paperback)
- Author
- Yuval Levin
- Publisher
- AEI Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 084475112X
- ISBN 13
- 9780844751122
- Series
- Book 7 of 8: America at 250
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.
In the seventh volume of this series, scholars of American history, law, and politics discuss how the American Revolution unleashed the forces of constitution-making in the United States. As states erected new governments in the wake of independence, they worked to combine traditions of colonial self-government with both classical and novel political theories.
Studying the revolutionary period shows how it gave birth to a constitutional culture that shaped the delegates and debates that would forge the nation's enduring Constitution in 1787.
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About the Author
is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and the
author of The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation,
1760-1840 (2021).
Harvey
C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor
of Government, Emeritus, at Harvard University and the author of The Spirit
of Liberalism (1978) and America's Constitutional Soul (1991).
Jack N. Rakove is
the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and
professor of political science and (by courtesy) law at Stanford University. He
is the author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the
Constitution (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history.
Colleen
A. Sheehan is a professor of politics at Arizona
State University and the David and Patricia Caldwell Visiting Scholar on the
American Founding at the Heritage Foundation.
Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American
Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in
Public Policy. The founder and editor of National
Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The
New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National
Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times
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