Framed for Posterity: The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution

by Ralph Louis Ketcham

Book Overview

In Marbury v. Madison Chief Justice John Marshall defined the Constitution as "a superior, paramount law," one that superseded the laws passed by Congress and state legislatures. What makes it paramount? This book sets out to recover the enduring principles, purposes, and meanings that inform the founders' charter and continue to offer us political guidance more than 200 years later. In so doing it steers a middle course between "originalists"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700605916
• ISBN13: 9780700605910
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"