From: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Ellefson, C. Ashley | COPYRIGHT 2000 Emporia State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Edward Countryman, ed. What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans? Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. Pp. xii, 169. Paper, $11.95; ISBN 0-312-18262-7. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN 0-312-21821-4.

This book is a collection of five essays plus an introduction in which the editor provides the historical context and traces the changes in historians' approaches to the Constitution.

Probably Isaac Kramnick's "The `Great National Discussion': The Discourse ...