From Words to Worlds: Exploring Constitutional Functionality

by Beau Breslin

In the 225 years since the United States Constitution was first drafted, no single book has addressed the key questions of what constitutions are designed to do, how they are structured, and why they matter. In From Words to Worlds, constitutional scholar Beau Breslin corrects this glaring oversight, singling out the essential functions that a modern, written constitution must incorporate in order to serve as a nation's fundamental law.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0108DVQVA
• ISBN13: 9780801890512
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"