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- ISBN 9780313315312
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The issues and controversies surrounding the creation of our federal republic—and the rights of the federal government—have reverberated through many watershed events in the 200+ years of American history. This book will help students to debate those issues as they played out in eight crises from 1787 to the beginning of the 21st century. Expert commentary and 54 primary documents contemporary to the time were carefully selected to represent a variety of views on each issue. Events range from the creation of the federal republic to the ongoing controversy over women's rights.
Primary documents include presidential letters and speeches, newspaper opinion pieces, first-person accounts and letters, Supreme Court decisions, congressional debates, statutes, resolutions, and political party platforms. A narrative introduction to the issue of federalism over American history will help students contextualize the events in context. A chronology and bibliography of books and Web sites will assist the student researcher.
ROBERT P. SUTTON is Professor of History at Western Illinois University where he has taught since 1970. His fields of expertise include American legal history, communal utopias, and Illinois history. From 1990 to 1998, he was on the Board of Directors of the National Communal Studies Association, and in 1999 he was presented with that organization's Donald E. Pitzer Distinguished Service Award.
