Robert L. Tsai
Autor(a) de America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community
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Other than the Confederate Constitution, and to a certain degree the Sequoyah Constitution (which formed the basis of the Oklahoma Constitution), none of these documents were ever put into effect, and certainly none to the degree that the U.S. Constitution was. So this is not so much an analysis of what was, or even almost was, so much as what people thought should have been. Most of these groups were pretty marginalized in their time. But it's a perspective-twister to look at these remixes of the U.S. Constitution we all know, to look at how smart, passionate (and often slightly crazy or malevolent) people of bygone days tried to "fix" that document's apparent flaws.… (mais)