Power and Liberty
by Gordon S. Wood
Wood's short lectures on the Revolution's constitutional ideas: sovereignty, rights, judicial review, slavery. A compact distillation of a career.
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you want Wood's main arguments in two hundred pages.
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you want full narrative.
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Three things you will actually use
- Power versus liberty is the theme.
- Ideas drove the founding.
- Compact history rewards.
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Read the lecture on the constitutional convention.
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Wood, briefly.
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