A History of the American Constitution

Edition : 4th ed., 2026
Author(s) : Farber, Sherry

A History of the American Constitution
- ISBN: 9798895451007
- SKU: 95029-1
- Condition: New
- Format: Paperback
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The fourth edition brings the material up-to-date with both the latest historical scholarship and the most recent Supreme Court decisions using historical analysis, as well as incorporating discussions of current events. Now that a majority of Supreme Court Justices appear to have endorsed some form of “originalism” as the primary method of interpreting the American Constitution, it is more important than ever for students of constitutional law to have access to both historical primary sources and historical scholarship. To think about modern constitutional questions intelligently, then, both law students and undergraduates need to have ready access to the historical materials so they can see how the Framers of the Constitution thought about critical issues. Yet the original source materials fill many volumes. Writings by historians also fill many bookshelves. Just as the traditional casebook selects and condenses materials from the court reports to make them useful for students, this book does the same thing for the historical evidence of the Framers’ original intent. There is no other source that covers this range of materials, combined with concise overviews of the best understanding of the historical context. Only this book gives students a cogent introduction to the history behind the Constitution and its major amendments, so they can form their own judgments about the "original understanding" and its relevance to modern constitutional law.