For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History

by Peter Charles Hoffer

Book Overview

In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early American history. Over the course of five days in September 1787, five men serving on an ad hoc "Committee of Style and Arrangement" edited the draft of the federal Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, profoundly recasting the wording of the Preamble...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199899533
• ISBN13: 9780199899531
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.1"