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Pauline Maier’s Followers (44)
Pauline Maier
Born
in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
April 27, 1938
Died
August 12, 2013
Genre
Influences
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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
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1997
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24 editions
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
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2010
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18 editions
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From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain 1765-76
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published
1972
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9 editions
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The Declaration of Independence/The Constitution of the United States
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published
1998
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4 editions
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Inventing America: A History of the United States (Second Edition) (Vol. 2)
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published
2002
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12 editions
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The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
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published
1980
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8 editions
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Inventing America, Vol 1
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2005
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5 editions
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Inventing America, Vol 2
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2002
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6 editions
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The American people: A history
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Inventing America, 2e, Volume 1, Part 1
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“Wilson had to explain why the Constitution did not, like several state constitutions, include a bill of rights. The reason, he said in one of his most influential arguments, lay in a critical difference between the constitutions of the states and the proposed federal Constitution. Through the state constitutions, the people gave their state governments “every right and authority which they did not in explicit terms reserve.” The federal Constitution, however, carefully defined and limited the powers of Congress, so that body’s authority came “not from tacit implication, but from the positive grant” of specific powers in the Constitution.”
― Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
― Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
“Universal experience,” he began, proved the necessity of “the most express declarations and reservations … to protect the just rights and liberty of Mankind from the Silent, powerful, and ever active conspiracy of those who govern.” The new Constitution should therefore “be bottomed upon a declaration, or Bill of Rights, clearly and precisely stating the principles upon which the Social Compact is founded.”
― Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
― Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
“If Lee discussed his proposals with Washington during a visit to Mount Vernon on November 11 and 12, he no doubt received a cold reception. Washington certainly did not take kindly to the constitutional objections that George Mason sent him on October 7, with no sense, it seems, of how much hostility they would provoke. Washington wrote Madison (who was attending Congress in New York) that Mason had carefully distributed his objections among the seceding members of the Pennsylvania assembly, who repeated them in their published “address.” Washington thought Mason was also behind Lee’s arguments. Mason, in short, had caused the opposition to the Constitution in both Congress and the Pennsylvania assembly, and for no good reason: Madison insisted that there was little if anything worthy of serious consideration in Mason’s objections, which he dismissed, one by one.”
― Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
― Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
