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Noah Feldman - "The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America"

Government and Civics

Noah Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard University. Order The Broken Constitution at the...

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Letter

1788/05/12

[Extract of a letter of support for the Constitution from a Virginian to a friend in Portsmouth, New Hampshire]

Recognizes that human political institutions are not perfect, and describes the proposed Constitution as "the result of mutual concession and accommodation" that does not "come fully up to the views of any one." He praises the Constitution as...

GLC06537

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"We the People": Printings of the US Constitution from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

Government and Civics

8, 9, 10, 11, 12

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Autograph letter signed

1773/01/08

Baldwin, William, fl. 1773

to Nathaniel Huntington re: honesty and law [Not the signer of the Constitution]

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Kevin Cline on GLI History School's "US Constitution: Looking Backward from 2021 to 1787"

Kevin Cline, who taught the Summer 2020 History School course “The United States, 1492–1865,” returns to History School this spring with “ The US Constitution: Looking Backward from 2021 to 1787 .” This course focuses on key aspects...

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Noah Feldman - "The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America"

"We the People": Printings of the US Constitution from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

Kevin Cline on GLI History School's "US Constitution: Looking Backward from 2021 to 1787"

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