San Antonio College Library

A comprehensive anthology of original historical documents relating to the legal and historical context of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

"Historian Michael Kammen presents here, for the first time, the documented history of the evolution of the American Constitution--from the early influential ideas of the state constitutions and The Articles of Confederation to the political writings of The Federalist papers and the dissenting views of the Anti-Federalist papers. Using personal correspondence between Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and others, Kammen re-creates the debates and behind-the-scenes...

"When the former allies of World War II divided Germany into two provisional states, no one would have predicted that this would last for nearly half a century. Nor could anyone have predicted that sixty years later, Germany would have shaken off its Nazi past so thoroughly as to emerge as a key player in Western politics." "Gert-Joachim Glaessner explains this historic transformation and provides an in-depth introduction to the German political system,...

Three early American statesmen defend the political principles and ideologies set forth in the Constitution of the United States, in a new edition of the classic, which is accompanied by a selected bibliography, historical glossary, new introduction, and other resource material.

"The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement...