The Bill of Rights in modern America
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The Bill of Rights in modern America
Indiana University Press, c2008
Rev. and expanded
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First edition titled, The Bill of Rights in modern America : after 200 years"--T.p. verso
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Description
This newly revised and expanded edition of The Bill of Rights in Modern America captures the contentious national debate about the nature and extent of our individual rights. Free speech, the separation of church and state, public safety and gun control, property rights, the rights of criminals and victims, the limits of law enforcement, the death penalty, affirmative action, the right to privacy, abortion, states' rights-the Bill of Rights has been evoked as the legal basis for every one of these issues. Twelve distinguished legal scholars discuss the history of and the current debates on these and other important rights issues in a book that is certain to stimulate thoughtful discussion among all citizens.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction, James W. Ely, Jr., and David J. Bodenhamer
The Bill of Rights (and the Fourteenth Amendment)
Part 1. The Myth and Reality of Rights
1. Rights Consciousness in American History, Daniel T. Rodgers
2. The Explosion and Erosion of Rights, Gary L. McDowell
Part 2. Modern Rights in Controversy
3. The First Amendment and the Freedom to Differ, Suzanna Sherry
4. Church and State: The Religion Clauses, Melvin I. Urofsky
5. Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms, Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond
6. The Enigmatic Place of Property Rights in Modern Constitutional Thought, James W. Ely, Jr.
7. Reversing the Revolution: Rights of the Accused in a Conservative Age, David J. Bodenhamer
8. Police Practices and the Bill of Rights, Laurence A. Benner and Michal R. Belknap
9. "The "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" Clause: A Limit on the Power to Punish or Constitutional Rhetoric?, Joseph L. Hoffmann
10. Equal Protection and Affirmative Action, Herman Belz
Part 3. Rights Remembered, Revised, and Extended
11. The Right to Privacy, Ken I. Kersch
12. Second Wind for the State Bill of Rights, Randall T. Shepard
Notes
Bibliographic Essays
List of Contributors
Table of Cases
Index
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