5 Best american history books like From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition by Robert A. Goldwin

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From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

By: Robert A. Goldwin

3.56

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that additi…

"Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

"Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

"citizen armies would be relied on, rather than a standing army, to the extent possible, for defense against foreign enemies."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

"citizen armies would be relied on, rather than a standing army, to the extent possible, for defense against foreign enemies."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

If you liked the american history plot in From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition by Robert A. Goldwin , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Gideon's Trumpet

By: Anthony Lewis

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Gideon's Trumpet is the story of this extraordinary case, from the night of June 3, 1961, when the … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet book and Robert A. Goldwin's From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

  • american history
  • nonfiction

2. Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

By: James T. Patterson

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction

3. The Politics of Gun Control

By: None

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

This work offers wide-ranging coverage of the American gun culture, the history and meaning of Seco… read more

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4. Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle

By: Andrea Louise Campbell

4.00

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Louise Campbell's Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle book and Robert A. Goldwin's From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

  • nonfiction
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5. Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial

By: Paul Kens

3.51

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded … read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
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6. From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

By: Robert A. Goldwin

3.56

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This book tells how the Bill of Rights was amended to the Constitution and explains how that additi… read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Goldwin's From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition book and Robert A. Goldwin's From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

  • american history
  • nonfiction
"Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

"citizen armies would be relied on, rather than a standing army, to the extent possible, for defense against foreign enemies."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

"The Bill of Rights slipped quietly into the Constitution and passed from sight and public consciousness until given a new and very different life by the Supreme Court more than a century later."

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

"a majority when united by a common interest or passion cannot be restrained from oppressing the minority, what remedy can be found in a republican Government, where the majority must ultimately decid…"

-Robert A. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

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7. None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

By: Lawrence Cappello

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Capello investigates why we’ve been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Cappello's None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age book and Robert A. Goldwin's From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition

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  • nonfiction

6 Best nonfiction books like From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constutition by Robert A. Goldwin

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James T. Patterson

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Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle

Andrea Louise Campbell

4.00

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Paul Kens

3.51

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3.88

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

3.78

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