TY - BOOK AU - Bodenhamer,David J. TI - The revolutionary constitution SN - 9780199360444 U1 - 346.73023 22 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Constitutional history KW - United States KW - BUEsh KW - Constitutional law KW - Politics and government KW - BUSBOL KW - April2016 N1 - Previously issued in print: 2013; Index : p. [265]-281; Includes bibliographical references; Available on campus and off campus with authorized login N2 - This study provides a comprehensive new look at America's basic law, integrating the latest legal scholarship with historical context to highlight how it has evolved over time. The Constitution, it notes, was the product of the first modern revolution, and revolutions are, by definition, moments when the past shifts toward an unfamiliar future, one radically different from what was foreseen only a brief time earlier ER -