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9780300082777

The Bill of Rights; Creation and Reconstruction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300082777

  • ISBN10:

    0300082770

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2000-04-10
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

A leading scholar of constitutional law delivers an incisive and brilliant new account of the Bill of Rights and explodes conventional wisdom about our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar not only illuminates the text, structure, and history of the 1789 Bill but also argues that its present character owes more to antislavery activists of the Reconstruction era than to the Founding Fathers who created the Bill.

Author Biography

Akhil Reed Amar is Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
PART I CREATION
First Things First
3(17)
Our First Amendment
20(26)
The Military Amendments
46(18)
Searches, Seizures, and Takings
64(17)
Juries
81(38)
The Popular-Sovereignty Amendments
119(18)
PART II RECONSTRUCTION
Antebellum Ideas
137(26)
The Reconstruction Amendment: Text
163(18)
The Reconstruction Amendment: History
181(34)
Refining Incorporation
215(16)
Reconstructing Rights
231(53)
A New Birth of Freedom
284(11)
Afterword 295(14)
Appendix: Amendments I--X and XIV 309(4)
Notes 313(84)
Index 397

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