@article{1389721,
      author = {Rakove, Jack N.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1389721},
      title = {Original meanings : politics and ideas in the making of  the Constitution /},
      publisher = {A.A. Knopf,},
      abstract = {What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who  has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the  intentions of its framers at the Federal Convention of  1787, or to those of its ratifiers in the states? Or should  we trust our own judgment in deciding whether the original  meaning of the Constitution should still guide its later  interpretation? These are the recurring questions in the  ongoing process of analyzing and resolving constitutional  issues, but they are also questions about the distant  events of the eighteenth century. In this book, Jack Rakove  approaches the debates surrounding the framing and  ratification of the Constitution from the vantage point of  history, examining the range of concerns that shaped the  politics of constitution-making in the late 1780s, and  which illuminate the debate about the role that  "originalism" should play in constitutional  interpretation.},
      recid = {1389721},
      pages = {xvi, 439 pages ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {1996},
}