Grossman, Mark.

Constitutional amendments an encyclopedia of the people, procedures, politics, primary documents [and] campaigns for the 27 amendments to the Constitution of the United States / [electronic resource] : Mark Grossman. - 1st ed. - Amenia, N.Y. : Grey House Pub., 2012. - 1 online resource (2 v. (xii, 1144 p.)) : ill. - Gale virtual reference library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1, Bill of rights ; Eleventh amendment ; Twelfth amendment ; Thirteenth amendment ; Fourteenth amendment ; Fifteenth amendment ; Sixteenth amendment ; Seventeenth amendment ; Eighteenth amendment -- v. 2, Nineteenth amendment ; Twentieth amendment ; Twenty-first amendment ; Twenty-second amendment ; Twenty-third amendment ; Twenty-fourth amendment ; Twenty-fifth amendment ; Twenty-sixth amendment ; Twenty-seventh amendment.

This reference work defines the 27 amendments in comprehensive chapters with detailed narratives on the process behind each amendment. Each chapter includes a valuable collection of supportive material, such as biographies of individuals significant to the amendment's passage, reprints of actual political debates, newspaper articles, government reports, and Supreme Court cases.

9781592379996 9781619250031 (electronic book)


Constitutional amendments--United States--Encyclopedias.
Constitutional history--United States--Encyclopedias.

KF4557

342.7303

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