Discusses the history of the United States Constitution from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to later amendments that were added to the Constitution.

"The Constitution of the United States is arguably the most influential document in our nation's history. In this illuminating text, readers will study sources of information about the Constitution. In doing so, readers will learn how to identify reliable and unreliable sources, interpret primary sources, and consider how certain sources may be biased or interpret the same information differently. This book stimulates critical thinking by encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions about the information they're presented with"--

"Gregg Jarrett provides commentary for the documents and speeches that shaped America"--

"Oligarchy is a threat to the republic. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show that, for most of US history, Americans saw the Constitution as responding to that threat by imposing on legislators a duty to break up oligarchy, block corporate political power, and ensure a broad distribution of wealth and political power among ordinary Americans"--

Breathing new life into the traditional civics lesson, Peter Sagal travels across the country on a Harley Davidson to find out where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn't, how it unites us as a nation, and how it has nearly torn us apart.

"One standard story about America is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Another story concerns America's moment of reckoning after the Civil War, when it was possible to believe that the country would transcend its racist roots. Kermit Roosevelt III argues here that today, with the country increasingly riven along violent divides, we can find a path forward by shifting our benchmarks from the first story, which fostered the Confederacy, to the second. America doesn't need to find a new usable past; it already has one: we don't live in the Founders' America-we live in Lincoln's"--

"In We the People, renown journalist, Fox political analyst, and bestselling author Juan Williams examines the lives of the men and women in the 20th century who have extended the Founding Fathers' original vision of the country and reshaped what America is"--