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005			20240726105111.0
008			181001s2018 mau ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aKF4541 _b.S436 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aGienapp, Jonathan, _d1983- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe second creation : _bfixing the American Constitution in the founding era / _cJonathan Gienapp.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (451 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aAmericans widely believe that the United States Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation in the decade after its adoption--a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation. When the Constitution first appeared, it was shrouded in uncertainty. Not only was its meaning unclear, but so too was its essential nature. Was the American Constitution a written text, or something else? Was it a legal text? Was it finished or unfinished? What rules would guide its interpretation? Who would adjudicate competing readings? As political leaders put the Constitution to work, none of these questions had answers. Through vigorous debates they confronted the document's uncertainty, and--over time--how these leaders imagined the Constitution radically changed. They had begun trying to fix, or resolve, an imperfect document, but they ended up fixing, or cementing, a very particular notion of the Constitution as a distinctively textual and historical artifact circumscribed in space and time. This means that some of the Constitution's most definitive characteristics, ones which are often treated as innate, were only added later and were thus contingent and optional. By offering a stunning revision of the founding document's evolving history, The Second Creation forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution?-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Reimagining the creation of the American Constitution -- _tThe uncertainty of written constitutionalism -- _tLanguage and power -- _tThe unfinished Constitution -- _tThe sacred text -- _tThe rules of the Constitution -- _tThe "people's" Constitution -- _tThe apotheosis of the fixed Constitution -- _tEpilogue: The endurance of fixity.
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610	1	0	_aUnited States -- _tConstitution.
650		0	_aConstitutional amendments _zUnited States.
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States.
650		0	_aConstitutional law _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1905145&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell