The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal govern

According to the conventional wisdom American constitutional democracy stemmed from Athenian democracy, Roman Law, English legal practices, and the Magna Carta.

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Compilation for study groups of documents showing the rise of self-government in a religious-oriented America from colonial times through the American Revolutio

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