American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989Winner of the 2010 Book Award from the New England Historical Association American constitutionalism represents this countrys greatest gift to human freedom, yet its story remains largely untold. For over two hundred years, its ideals, ideas, and institutions influenced different peoples in different lands at different times. American constitutionalism and the revolutionary republican documents on which it is based affected countless countries by