Fourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights and the States
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Language: en
Pages: 106
Pages: 106
Discusses the twenty-six amendments to the United States Constitution, how each amendment was added, the people responsible such as George Mason, James Madison, and Carrie Chapman Catt, and also provides for classroom learning activties.
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
The Bill of Rights and Civil War Amendments created a triangular power struggle among state, nation and individual. Using cases, this book focuses on that struggle and the impacts it had on court decision making throughout Justice Rehnquist's lengthy term on the Supreme Court, which acted as arbiter among the
Language: en
Pages: 58
Pages: 58
Books about The Bill of Rights and Beyond
Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Language: en
Pages: 394
Pages: 394
This book is a documentary history of the rights found in the American state constitutions adopted between 1776 and 1790. Despite the rich tradition of rights at the state level, rights in America have been identified almost exclusively with the national Bill of Rights. Indeed, there is no work that
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