Was the American Constitution a written text, or something else? They had begun trying to fix, or resolve, an imperfect document, but they ended up fixing, or cementing, a very particular notion of the Constitution as a distinctively textual and historical artifact circumscribed in space and time.
This means that some of the Constitution's most definitive characteristics, ones which are often treated as innate, were only added later and were thus contingent and optional. Gienapp offers fresh and thoughtful reinterpretations of several of the most important debates of this formative period of American constitutional development.--Saul Cornell, author of A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America The Second Creation is a brilliant and timely intervention in American constitutional history. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Who would adjudicate competing readings? Review of Jonathan Gienapp’s The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era. Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. “ The Second Creation is a brilliant and timely intervention in American constitutional history. Enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you.Online and in-store stock may differ. originalism and interpretation. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era… This means that some of the Constitution\'s most definitive characteristics, ones which are often treated as innate, were only added later and were thus contingent and optional. When the Constitution first appeared, it was shrouded in uncertainty. John Mikhail2 Jonathan Gienapp’s new book, The Second Creation, is a marvelous study of the earliest debates over constitutional Through vigorous debates they confronted the document's uncertainty, and--over time--how these leaders imagined the Constitution radically changed. Was it a legal text? When the Constitution first appeared, it was shrouded in uncertainty. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation in the decade after its adoption--a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation.
His innovative and persuasive study will revolutionize the way lawyers as well as scholars interpret the Founding era.--Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination Gienapp focuses our attention on the first decade of controversy over the remarkable new invention, a national constitution. Not only was its meaning unclear, but so too was its essential nature.
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Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours.Focuses on many of the structural and institutional issues that continue to consume us--including presidential powers, the role of Congress, and the use and abuse of originalist approaches to the By Jonathan Gienapp.1 Harvard University Press. Was it a legal text? Was the American Constitution a written text, or something else? By showing how 'original intentions' originated in congressional debates about what the framers and ratifiers originally intended, Jonathan Gienapp forces us to take another long look at what we understand the Constitution to be.