(Ebook) Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History from the founding through the age of industrialization by Melvin Urofsky, Paul Finkelman ISBN 9780195128703, 9780195128727, 0195128702, 0195128729

(Ebook) Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History from the founding through the age of industrialization by Melvin Urofsky, Paul Finkelman ISBN 9780195128703, 9780195128727, 0195128702, 0195128729

At one time little could be found in books on constitutional history other than Supreme Court decisions. If an important constitutional issue did not appear in one of the Court's cases, then essentially there would be no trace of it in the materials. We now understand that often important constitutional decisions take place outside the Marble Palace, and this second edition of Documents, like the first, has a fair sprinkling of these other records--founding documents of the colonial era, state law and court decisions, presidential proclamations, articles of impeachment and occasional private writings as well. like A March of Liberty, for which this collection is a companion, the authors tried to take as broad a view of constitutional and legal history as possible.