Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New DealHarvard University Press, 2000 M09 15 - 223 pages Although Americans claim to revere the Constitution, relatively few understand its workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Yet scholars have paid little attention to the broader appeal that constitutional idealism has always made to the American imagination through publications and films. Maxwell Bloomfield draws upon such neglected sources to illustrate the way in which media coverage contributes to major constitutional change. |
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... Senate at last approved an income tax amendment in July 1909. Later that month the House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed the amendment , which became law on February 3 , 1913 , when the thirty- sixth state ratified it ...
... senators by the people . Between 1894 and 1911 the House passed such an amendment four times , only to see it re- jected each time by the Senate.67 As in the income tax campaign , the media kept the issue before the pub- lic through ...
... senate of the United States is in duty bound to the highest principles of American justice as set forth in the government's constitution to protect the lives , property and the pursuit of happiness of its citizens and thusly upon such ...
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The Founders Constitution | 1 |
Modern Constitutionalism and Progressive Reform | 19 |
The Selling of War Socialism | 48 |
Copyright | |
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