![]() ![]() ![]() Men in Colonial dress lined up to cast their ballot have been joined by modern women, and a black and white child can reach across the modern grocery aisle to play with one another. ![]() Through these images the audience sees changes that have taken place in the intervening centuries: clothes washing-boards have traded in for washing machines, the pillory changed to an isolated jail cell. In Spier's lavishly detailed style, he presents many scenes from Colonial America, juxtaposed against comparable scenes of America in 1987. Following a historical introduction to the document's inception and historical importance (supplemented with an 1787 map of the US), the book presents an illustrated version of the Preamble to the Constitution. Peter Spier's book presents the United States Constitution in a format that is particularly attractive to young people. ![]()
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