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For Ourselves and Our Posterity

For Ourselves and Our Posterity The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History - Critical Historical Encounters

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In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early American history. Over the course of five days in September 1787, five men serving on an ad hoc "Committee of Style and Arrangement" edited the draft of the federal Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, profoundly recasting the wording of the Preamble. In so doing, the committee changed a federation into a Union and laid out an ambitious program for national governance many years ahead of its time. The Preamble and all that it came to represent was the unique achievement of a remarkable group of men at a momentous turning point in American history. Providing a clear exposition of constitutional issues, For Ourselves and Our Posterity features individual portraits of the leading framers at the heart of this dramatic event.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199899531
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford Univ PR
Pub date:
DEWEY: 342.73029
Language: English
Number of pages: 194
Weight: 272g
Height: 206mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 13mm