Edward S. Corwin's Constitution and What It Means Today: 1978 Edition

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Princeton University Press, 2008 M09 2 - 696 páginas

For over seventy-five years Edward S. Corwin's text has been a basic reference in the study of U.S. Constitutional Law. The 14th edition, the first new edition since 1973, brings the volume up to date through 1977.

In this classic work, historian Edward Corwin presented the text of the U.S. Constitution along with his own commentary on its articles, sections, clauses, and amendments. Corwin was a renowned authority on constitutional law and jurisprudence, and was hired at Princeton University by Woodrow Wilson in 1905.

Far from being an impersonal textbook, Corwin's edition was full of opinion. Not afraid to express his own strong views of the development of American law, Corwin offered piquant descriptions of the debates about the meaning of clauses, placing recent decisions of the court "in the familiar setting of his own views." The favor of his style is evident in his comments on judicial review ("American democracy's way of covering its bet") and the cabinet ("an administrative anachronism" that should be replaced by a legislative council "whose daily salt does not come from the Presidential table").

Corwin periodically revised the book for nearly forty years, incorporating into each new edition his views of new Supreme Court rulings and other changes in American law. Although Corwin intended his book for the general public, his interpretations always gained the attention of legal scholars and practitioners. The prefaces he wrote to the revised editions were often controversial for the views he offered on the latest developments of constitutional law, and the book only grew in stature and recognition.

After his death in 1963, other scholars prepared subsequent editions, fourteen in all.

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The Preamble
1
Article I
5
Article II
148
Article III
204
Article IV
246
Article V
268
Article VI
272
Article VII
284
Amendment XIII
455
Amendment XIV
460
Amendment XV
532
Amendment XVI
539
Amendment XVII
543
Amendment XVIII
544
Amendment XIX
545
Amendment XX
546

Amendments
285
Amendment I
286
Amendment II
340
Amendment III
341
Amendment V
368
Amendment VI
404
Amendment VII
427
Amendment VIII
432
Amendment IX
440
Amendment X
442
Amendment XI
448
Amendment XII
452
Amendment XXI
548
Amendment XXII
550
Amendment XXIII
551
Amendment XXV
552
Amendment XXVI
555
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
557
Epilogue
560
The Constitution
562
Table of Cases
583
Index
645
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