Amending America

by Bernstein, Richard Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780700607150
• ISBN10: 0700607153
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

'A skillfully rendered, comprehensive, and engaging study of Article V's procedures for amending the Constitution.' -Washington Post

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Devising the Amending Process
Antecedents of Article V	p. 3
"An Easy, Regular, and Constitutional Way"	p. 14
The First Fruits of Article V: The Bill of Rights	p. 31
Setting the Pattern: The Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments	p. 48
The Amending Process and the Development of the Constitution
"Take Care of the Union"	p. 71
Redefining the Union: The Civil War Amendments	p. 94
Democratizing the Constitution: The Progressive Amendments	p. 117
Testing the Limits of Democratization	p. 135
The First Citizen: Adjusting the Presidency	p. 149
Roads Not Taken: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution	p. 169
The Nation the Amending Process Made	p. 199
"With All the Coolness of Philosophers": Proposals to Rewrite the Constitution	p. 222
Implications of the Amending Process
Riddles Without Answers: Issues of the Amending Process	p. 243
Amending America	p. 263
Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States (Literal Text, with Amendments through 1992)	p. 279
Appendix B: Amendments Proposed by Congress but Not Ratified by the States	p. 301
Appendix C: Chronology of the Amendments	p. 305
Notes	p. 309
Index	p. 379
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