Origins of the Bill of Rights.

Origins of the Bill of Rights.

Americans resorted to arms in 1775 not to establish new liberties but to defend old ones, explains constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy in this fascinating history of the origins of the Bill of Rights. Unencumbered by a rigid class system, an arbitrary government, or a single established church...

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Main Author: Levy, Leonard W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999.
Series:Contemporary law series.
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution. > 1st-10th Amendments > History.
Constitution (United States)
Civil rights > United States > History.
Civil rights
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chronology
  • ONE Why We Have the Bill of Rights
  • TWO Habeas Corpus
  • THREE Bills of Attainder
  • FOUR The First Amendment: The Establishment Clause
  • FIVE The First Amendment: The Free Press Clause
  • SIX The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • SEVEN The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure
  • EIGHT The Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination
  • NINE Double Jeopardy
  • TEN The Double Jury System: Grand and Petty
  • ELEVEN The Eighth Amendment
  • TWELVE The Ninth Amendment: Unenumerated Rights
  • Appendix: Key Documents

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