Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

ISBN-13:	9780679781219
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/27/1997
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	66,367
Product dimensions:	5.22(w) x 7.95(h) x 1.03(d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.