The Bill of Rights : creation and reconstruction

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The Bill of Rights : creation and reconstruction

Akhil Reed Amar

Yale University Press, c1998

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 313-396

Includes index

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: cloth ISBN 9780300073799

内容説明

This study illuminates the text, structure, and history of the clauses of the 1789 Bill of Rights, and looks at their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. The author also looks at the changes brought about by the introduction of the Fourteenth Amendment.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780300082777

内容説明

"This is one of the most important books about constitutional interpretation of its generation."-Jeffrey Rosen, American Lawyer 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 incisive new account of our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar brilliantly illuminates in rich detail not simply the text, structure, and history of individual clauses of the 1789 Bill, but their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. Amar's corrective does not end there, however, for as his powerful narrative proves, a later generation of antislavery activists profoundly changed the meaning of the Bill in the Reconstruction era. With the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans underwent a new birth of freedom that transformed the old Bill of Rights. We have as a result a complex historical document originally designed to protect the people against self-interested government and revised by the Fourteenth Amendment to guard minority against majority. 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. Amar's landmark work invites citizens to a deeper understanding of their Bill of Rights and will set the basic terms of debate about it for modern lawyers, jurists, and historians for years to come.

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