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This distinguished and highly regarded work goes beyond the mere description of court cases to view constitutional growth and development against the larger fabric of American history. Thoroughly revised in interpretation as well as historical narrative, the new edition incorporates the extensive scholarship of the past twenty-five years. Among its many features, the Sixth Edition)

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Augments its solid discussion of the Supreme Court and the history of constitutional law with an examination and interpretation of the constitutional system as a whole, including the executive and legislative branches, administrative agencies, political parties, interest

groups, the press, and the electorate. Provides the most thorough account of any text on early American constitutional development before the American Revolution and during the revolutionary era. Takes a broad, system-wide view of constitutional change in the post-New Deal era, including Watergate and other events of the 1970s.

Reconsiders the strength and persistence of decentralist, democratic-participatory, and antigovernmental values in the American constitutional order.

While the text has been extensively revised, The American Constitution retains the qualities that account for its long success. And it is still supplemented with such material as the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, a revised Table of Cases, and a thoroughly updated bibliography.

The late Alfred H. Kelly taught at Wayne State University for forty-one years and was chairman of the history department from 1953 to 1975. He served as technical assistant to Thurgood Marshall in preparation of the NAACP case in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and as co-director for research and drafting for the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1961-62. In 1970 he was appointed to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise by the president of the United States. Winfred A. Harbison is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University, where he has also served as vice-president for Academic Administration. Professor Harbison has been Fulbright Professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is the author of numerous pieces on Abraham Lincoln.

Herman Belz is Professor of constitutional history at the University of Maryland. He did his undergraduate work at Princeton University and received his Ph. D. from the University of Washington. His previous publications include Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the Civil War: A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights; and, with Norton, Emancipation and Equal Rights Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era.