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God and the founders God and the founders Vincent Phillip Muñoz Did the Founding Fathers intend to build a "wall of separation" between church and state? Are public Ten Commandments displays or the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance consistent with th… OL13646859W
To begin the world anew To begin the world anew Bernard Bailyn With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the fo… OL15798568W
How democratic is the American Constitution? How democratic is the American Constitution? Robert Alan Dahl "In this book, one of our most eminent political scientists poses the question, "Why should we uphold our Constitution?" The vast majority of Americans venerate the American Constitution and the prin… OL16027350W
Madison's music Madison's music Burt Neuborne "Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without… OL19996533W
What the Anti-Federalists Were For What the Anti-Federalists Were For Herbert J. Storing Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay benefited greatly by having their Federalist arguments in favor of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution known by the common name of "Federalism". … OL3489437W