na INLIS000000000010139 20211006092856 0010-1021000017 ta 211006 | | | 9780429301582 342.73 342.73 PHI Philosophical dimensions of the Constitution / edited by Diana T. Meyers and Kenneth Kipnis 1st edition New York : Routledge, 2019 256 pages <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429301582">e-book</a> Constitutional law--United States--Philosophy In theclosing decades of the eighteenth century, the newly independent colonies along the mid-Atlantic coast of North America commenced an unprecedented public debate concerning the principles of civil government. The debate culminated in 1787 with the Philadelphia convention where the United States Constitution was drafted and adopted.