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Pulitzer Prize, Background, 1997 What did the US Constitution originally imply, and how can we retrieve the motives of its framers? These questions, which resound throughout today's most heated legal and politics controversies, lie at the heart of Jack port N. Rakove's splendidly readable work of historical analysis. In Original Meanings, he traces the complicated weave of ideology and hobbies from which the Constitution surfaced and shows how People in america have fastened different meanings with their founding document as soon as it was publicized. Original Meanings examines the traditional issues that the framers of the Constitution experienced to resolve: federalism, representation, executive power, individual privileges, and the idea that the Constitution itself should become supreme regulation. Rakove will pay particular attention to Wayne Madison, the Constitution's presiding genius, whose brilliance molded the document's framing, ratification, and amendment. The result is a major work of reinterpretation that needs to be read by every student of American record, regulation, and politics.
