Who has written the best articles/books about the history of the US Constitution?
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The Making of America:  The substance and Meaning of the Constitution\nW. Cleon Skousen
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Many sites:\nhttp://www.house.gov/paul/constitutiontext.htm\nhttp://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Various/The_Constitution_Of_The_United_States_Of_America_1787/\nhttp://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
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Declaration of Independence and The US Constitution, respectively.
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Fascinating Facts about the U.S. Constitution\nThe U.S. Constitution has 4,440 words. It is the oldest and the shortest written constitution of any government in the world. \n\n\n\nOf the typographical errors in the Constitution, the misspelling of the word “Pensylvania” above the signers’ names is probably the most glaring. \n\n\n\nThomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution. He was in France during the Convention, where he served as the U.S. minister. John Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend either.\n\n\n\nThe Constitution was “penned” by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly clerk, for a fee of $30 ($280.72 today). It was stored in various cities until 1952, when it was placed in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. During the daytime, pages one and four of the document are displayed in a bullet-proof case. The case contains helium and water vapor to preserve the paper’s quality. At night, the pages are lowered into a vault, behind five-ton doors that are designed to withstand a nuclear explosion. The entire Constitution is displayed only one day a year—September 17, the anniversary of the day the framers signed the document. \n\n\n\nThe Constitution does not set forth requirements for the right to vote. As a result, at the outset of the Union, only male property-owners could vote. African Americans were not considered citizens, and women were excluded from the electoral process. Native Americans were not given the right to vote until 1924.\n\n\n\nJames Madison, “the father of the Constitution,” was the first to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. He arrived in February, three months before the convention began, bearing the blueprint for the new Constitution.\n\n\n\nOf the forty-two delegates who attended most of the meetings, thirty-nine actually signed the Constitution. Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts refused to sign due in part to the lack of a bill of rights.\n\n\n\nWhen it came time for the states to ratify the Constitution, the lack of any bill of rights was the primary sticking point.\n\n\n\nThe Great Compromise saved the Constitutional Convention, and, probably, the Union. Authored by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman, it called for proportional representation in the House, and one representative per state in the Senate (this was later changed to two.) The compromise passed 5-to-4, with one state, Massachusetts, “divided.”\n\n\n\nPatrick Henry was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but declined, because he “smelt a rat.”\n\n\n\nBecause of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.\n\n\n\nGouverneur Morris was largely responsible for the “wording” of the Constitution, although there was a Committee of Style formed in September 1787.\n\n\n\nThe oldest person to sign the Constitution was Benjamin Franklin (81). The youngest was Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey (26).\n\n\n\nWhen the Constitution was signed, the United States’ population was 4 million. It is now more than 300 million. Philadelphia was the nation’s largest city, with 40,000 inhabitants.\n\n\n\nA proclamation by President George Washington and a congressional resolution established the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789. The reason for the holiday was to give “thanks” for the new Constitution.\n\n\n\nThe first time the formal term “The United States of America” was used was in the Declaration of Independence.\n\n\n\nIt took one hundred days to actually “frame” the Constitution.\n\n\n\nThere was initially a question as to how to address the President. The Senate proposed that he be addressed as “His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of their Liberties.” Both the House of Representatives and the
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James Madison wrote the Preamble and the rest of the Constitution.
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Simon & Schuster: Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (Hardcover) \nA History of the Confederate States of America By William C. Davis \n\n\nShelby Foote is a great war author, also....
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His biggest contributions to the United States lay in his actions before he became the President.  He is often cited as the father of the constitution and was a major contributor to the federalist papers.  As President, the War of 1812 dominated his presidency.
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i don't think there is one.   Just read it.  If this is for school, I would focus on the amendments.
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let's see, in 1000 words or less:\n\nJefferson was an architect of our "constitutional republic" and Hamilton was the architect of our economic system. Each of our founding fathers have had various roles in forging the baseline of who and what America is today. Washington was the 'action hero' who led America's armies and then the government out of it's conception (and then dared to turn over power peacefully! Unheard of!) and created precedence for how power is to be handled. Franklin, the man who embodied the ideals of personal drive and creativity and how success can be achieved in our society. You really need to read all about these people and what they did... you just can't type it out here...
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Here is one...\n\nhttp://www.usconstitution.net/const.html\n\nIt covers the entire consitution.  Each amendment has it's own link.\n\nHere is a summary:\nAmendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression \nAmendment 2 - Right to bear Arms \nAmendment 3 - Quartering of soldiers \nAmendment 4 - Search and Seizure \nAmendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings \nAmendment 6 - Right to speedy trial, confrontation of witnesses \nAmendment 7 - Trial by jury in civil cases \nAmendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual punishment \nAmendment 9 - Construction of Constitution \nAmendment 10 - Powers of the States and People \nAmendment 11 - Judicial Limits \nAmendment 12 - Choosing the President, Vice President \nAmendment 13 - Slavery Abolished \nAmendment 14 - Citizenship Rights \nAmendment 15 - Race no bar to vote \nAmendment 16 - Income Tax authorized \nAmendment 17 - Senators elected by popular vote \nAmendment 18 - Liquor abolished \nAmendment 19 - Women's suffrage \nAmendment 20 - Presidential, Congressional terms \nAmendment 21 - Amendment 18 repealed \nAmendment 22 - Presidential Term Limits \nAmendment 23 - Presidential vote for District of Columbia \nAmendment 24 - Poll taxes barred \nAmendment 25 - Presidential disability and succession \nAmendment 26 - Voting age set to 18 years \nAmendment 27 - Congressional pay increases
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Who else out there believes that the Constitution of the United States is wrong?
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Are you talking about the English Magna Carta or the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.???\nIt is confusing.
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look up the federalist papers on line.  Don't quote me, but if I remember correctly some federalists were Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson.  I do not recall any prominent anti federalists, but they were the ones who did not want the ratification of the Constitution.  The Federalist Papers, which were written by Madison, Hamilton and Jay, were published under the collective penname of Publius.  They gave reasons why there should be one federal government--since the ARticles of Confederation were not working.  Anti Federalists were afraid of big government becoming a moncarchy, due to what they had left behind in England. One anti-federalist was New York Supreme Court justice Robert Yates, who published under the name Brutus, a number of essays designed to steer people toward a decentralized federal government.  The works of Brutus and Publius were published around the same time, and were a series of "letters" written to try and convince the public of each sides views.  Hope it helps.\n\n\np.s next time don't procrastinate!!!!!  :)  happens to the best of us.
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The Crisis is a collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, an extremely popular and successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England. The essays collected here constitute Paine's ongoing support for an independent and self-governing America through the many severe crises of the Revolutionary War. General Washington found the first essay so inspiring, he ordered that it be read to the troops at Valley Forge.
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The Federalist Papers by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton
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Buy a copy of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers
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sent to your home?\n\nI'm not sure, but there are lots of websites you could download and print it.  Most encyclopedias include a copy (our old World Book's have it).\n\nYou can get the full text at this site, along with other information.\nhttp://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/\n\nThe US constitution is not a complex legal document (even though it is being turned into one by complex legal people).  It is not too long.  It is pretty clear. \n\nEveryone in the US should be famaliar with this document.\n\nThe preamble is poetic.  The bill of rights (the attachement) is the key to our way of life.\n\nGood luck and good reading.