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What is The Second Creation : Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era about?
Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation in the decade after its adoption--a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation. When the Constitution first appeared, it was shrouded in u
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- Author
- Gienapp, Jonathan
- Publisher
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674989528
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, History, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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