The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History
Mark Peterson’s The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution examines the long historical background of America’s constitutional tradition. Spanning a thousand years, it explores the processes through which constitutions are formed, sustained, challenged, and broken, offering broad context for understanding one of the nation’s defining political documents.
About This Book
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution presents a thousand-year history of the forces behind the American constitutional tradition.
Focusing on both creation and breakdown, the book places the Constitution within a broad historical framework.
Mark Peterson offers readers a sustained examination of how constitutional ideas develop, endure, and come under pressure.
This work is suited to readers interested in American history, political institutions, and constitutional law.
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