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ERIC Number: ED300290
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 321
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
This Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle, Nos. 14-18.
Mann, Shelia, Ed.
This Constitution, n14-17 Spr Sum Win Fall 1987 n18 Spr-Sum 1988
Each issue in this bicentennial series features articles on selected U.S. Constitution topics, along with a section on primary documents and lesson plans or class activities. Issue 14 features: (1) "The Political Economy of the Constitution" (K. Dolbeare; L. Medcalf); (2) "A 'New Historical Whooper': Creating the Art of the Constitutional Sesquicentennial" (K. Marling); (3) "The Founding Fathers and the Right to Bear Arms: To Keep the People Duly Armed" (R. Shalhope); and (4) "The Founding Fathers and the Right to Bear Arms: A Well-Regulated Militia" (L. Cress). Selected articles from issue 15 include: (1) "The Origins of the Constitution" (G. Wood); (2) "The Philadelphia Convention and the Development of American Government: From the Virginia Plan to the Constitution" (P. Maier); and (3) "Society and Republicanism: America in 1787" (J. Henretta). Featured in issue 16 are: (1) "'The Federalist'" (J. Yarbrough); (2) "The Constitutional Thought of the Anti-Federalists" (M. Dry); and (3) "The Constitution as Myth and Symbol" (M. Klein). Issue 17 features: (1) "'Our Successors Will Have an Easier Task': The First Congress Under the Constitution, 1789-1791" (J. Silbey); (2) "The 'Great Departments': The Origin of the Federal Government's Executive Branch" (R. Baker); and (3) "The Birth of the Federal Court System" (D. Eisenberg and others). Issue 18, the last chronicle in this series, features eight articles on the Bill of Rights and three articles on the future of the Constitution. Photographs and related resources are included, and issue 18 contains an index for issues 1-17. (JHP)
Project '87, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 nos. 13-17 $4.00 each, no. 18 $6.00).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Historical Materials; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Students; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: American Historical Association, Washington, DC.; Project '87, Washington, DC.; American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: United States Constitution
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A