The Bill of Rights
creation and reconstruction
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Author
Publication
1998 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
103,000 words, Guess
Page Count
412 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL691243M
- ISBN-100300073798
- OCLC Control Number47010309
- OCLC Control Number37694898
- OCLC Control Numberbillofrightscrea0000amar
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number97038370
- Goodreads999067
- LibraryThing40768
Classifications
- DDC342.73/085
- LCCKF4750 .A436 1998
Description
Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation, a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this new account of our most basic charter of liberty. In our continuing battles over freedom of religion and expression, arms bearing, privacy, states' rights, and popular sovereignty, Amar concludes, we must hearken to both the Founding Fathers who created the Bill and their sons and daughters who reconstructed it.
First Sentence
The 1789 Bill of Rights was, unsurprisingly, a creature of its time.
Excerpt
The 1789 Bill of Rights was, unsurprisingly, a creature of its time.
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