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Author Holcombe, Arthur N. (Arthur Norman), 1884-1977.

Title Our more perfect union : from eighteenth-century principles to twentieth-century practice
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard university press, [1950]
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1950]
©1950

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Description xiii, 460 pages
Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1. To Form A More Perfect Union -- CHAPTER 2. The Political Principles of 1787 -- CHAPTER 3. The Ordeal of the Constitution -- CHAPTER 4. The Unplanned Institution of Organized Partisanship -- CHAPTER 5. The Natural Limits to Partisan Power -- CHAPTER 6. Majority Rule in the House of Representatives -- CHAPTER 7. The Role of the Senate in the Legislative Process -- CHAPTER 8. Presidents and Congresses -- CHAPTER 9. Judges and Legislators -- CHAPTER 10. Judges and Administrators -- CHAPTER 11. The Supreme Court and the States -- CHAPTER 12. To Perfect the More Perfect Union -- Notes -- Index
Notes Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 431-446)
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Notes In English
Subject United States. Constitution.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history.
Etats -- Unis. Pensée politique. Après 1945
Gewaltenteilung
Politische Kultur
Recht
Verfassung
LC no. 50009371
ISBN 9780674498488