A Machine That Would Go of Itself

A Machine That Would Go of Itself
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 582
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ISBN-10 : 9781412805834
ISBN-13 : 141280583X
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Download or read book A Machine That Would Go of Itself written by Michael G. Kammen and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puliter Prie-winning historian Michael Kammen examines the cultural impact of the Constitution on the United States, explores the Constitutions place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life from ratification in 1788 to our own time, and expounds on what the Constitution has meant to the American people (perceptions and misperceptions, uses and abuses, knowledge and ignorance), Kammen shows that although there are recurrent declarations of reverence for our American "Ark of the Covenant," most of us neither know nor fully understand our Constitution.

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