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    <body><![CDATA[This history of the United State's Constitution takes constitution to be an act rather than a text.  It's focus, therefore, is not upon what the Supreme Court has said that the Constitution means, as law course and lawyers typically understand the Constitution, but rather upon the founding and the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41395578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a review of this book, which said it is the best book about the Constitution since the Federalist Papers. Hyperbole? A little, but it's not far off the mark. Actually, reading this book makes you realize how few good books there are about the Constitution. Most are either technical works for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38996182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Akhil Reed Amar united law, history and political science in his comprehensive account of the U.S. Constitution. He compares and contrasts the founding of this legal document, our Constitution, to the English government and to the Articles of Confederation preceding it to provide a background of whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46046439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am apparently in the minority on this one - it has an average rating of 4.2 something at the moment - but I found Amar's approach to the subject a little too fussy. Got 3/4 of the way in and just lost steam. I was dismayed as I got into it that it was written in the form of a 400 page long close r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6362338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An absolutely fantastic history of how the constitution was written, and how it has been changed thru the years.<br/><br/>Teaser: did you know that the 3/5th rule ensured that the South would control the federal government for the next hundred years, and that the impact of slavery would continue a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46766677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a remarkable book.  The author's knowledge, insight, analysis and synthesis are amazing.  There's too much to praise about it, so I'll just mention one aspect: Amar makes a very compelling case that from the beginning slavery was a disease spreading infection in our society and political sys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12368606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think even non-lawyers will like this, even though it gets into some minutia. He's pretty cocky, and I don't agree with all of his kooky theories, but he knows his stuff and this is an interesting twist on constitutional law.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such an amazing book, but it is dense, dense, dense, and it's going to take me FOREVER to finish.  I think Akil Amar is brilliant - he's a fantastic speaker who actually comes across just as powerfully on the page.<br/><br/>I get smarter every time I pick up the book (and stronger - it's h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66983921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent indispensible resource for anyone looking into the origins of the Constitution. Lengthy, but worth the read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hell of a book.  Not a trivial read, that's for sure. But to people like me who didn't have any history in college (and don't remember much from before then) it's a fantastic book, essentially about American history.<br/><br/>The book takes through our constitution line-by-line, explaining the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9132541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I definitely learned a lot about the Constitution from reading this book.  Written in the form of a &quot;biography&quot; it gives the history of the Constitution but also a political and legal point of view.  It tells American history through the perspective of the Constitution from the Preamble to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25938629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The BEST book in years on the intellectual origins, original meanings and significance of the constitution to the development of American government. Nearly every phrase in the constitution is explain with regards to its historical significance and its place in 18th century legal and governmental th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15798054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that takes the reader through the constitution, start to finish.  The book mixes economics, political science, lots of law, to create an engaging and approachable handbook on the Constitution.  I wish I would have read this prior to taking Constitutional Law at law school...]]></body>
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