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Title: Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale Isps Series) by Rogers M. Smith ISBN: 0-300-06989-8 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A REAL HISTORY
Comment: Civic Ideals is a book every american should read.Prof.Smith has demonstrated clearly how trough history the United States have had diferents meanings about the citizenship.In the case of Puerto Rico-the last colony of the world-we the Puerto Ricans have a second-class citizenship.The author sumarize very well our case with the insular cases and Balzac vs. People of Puerto Rico.Also Smith analize the legal debate in the Harvard Law Review,but do not mention the Yale Law Journal(Adams,Elmer B.,"The Causes and Results of Our War with Spain from a legal Standpoint."VII(1899),pag.119 and Parker,Le Roy,"The Constitution of Porto Rico",X (1901),pag.136.)and Columbia Law Review;Fuller,Paul,"Some Constitutional Questions Suggested by Recent Acquisitions"I(1901),pag.108).For people who want to know the real constitutional history of The United States this book is excellent.Is one of my favorites books.

Rating: 2
Summary: A little dry
Comment: This is one of the few books that I have started and then quit part way through. I had to force myself to continue reading after about page 50 and then quit at 200. It was very dry content and read too much like a doctoral dissertation. In addition, assumptions were made about the readers knowledge of court cases related to civic rights.

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