Gerard Magliocca

The Heart of the Constitution

How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Gerard Magliocca'sThe Heart of the Constitution is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten amendments the Bill of Rights. When they did after 1900, the Bill of Rights was usually invoked to increase rather than limit federal authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190271602
• ISBN-10: 0190271604
• Artikelnr.: 48064495

Autorenporträt

Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree at Stanford, his law degree at Yale, and spent one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Magliocca is the author of three other books on constitutional law and lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface: The Bill of Rights
Introduction: The First Bill of Rights Day
Chapter 1: Fighting the Crown
Chapter 2: Opposing the Constitution
Chapter 3: Drafting the Amendments
Chapter 4: Wandering in the Wilderness
Chapter 5: Reconstructing the Union
Chapter 6: Justifying Imperialism
Chapter 7: Defending The New Deal
Chapter 8: Attacking The Führer
Chapter 9: Reinventing Judicial Review
Chapter 10: Waging the Cold War
Epilogue: A Sacred Relic
Appendix A: The English Declaration of Rights (1689)
Appendix B: The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Appendix C: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Bibliography
Notes
Index