CREATING THE BILL OF RIGHTS: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress (Texas at Arlington Pubn in Ling; 97) - Softcover

Veit, Helen E.; Bowling, Kenneth R.; Bickford`, Charlene Bangs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801841003 ISBN 13: 9780801841002

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Aside from the declaration of Independence, with its ringing cries for liberty, no public document has become as sacred to the American people as the Bill of Rights-the first ten amendments to the federal Constitution. Protecting individual freedoms and safeguarding state authority, they officially went into effect on December 15, 1791. Two centuries later the Bill of Rights and its meaning remain lively topics-in the courts, in newspapers, and in classrooms.

Creating the Bill of Rights documents the legislative history of the amendments and the sharp debates they produced in Congress. The volume shows how James Madison earned the title "Father of the Bill of Rights" while working with other members of the first Federal Congress to secure the gains of the Revolution and put republican theory into practice. It also includes all of the often-colorful letters that the Bill of Rights generated among members of Congress and their constituents.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Helen E. Veit is an associate editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791.

Kenneth R. Bowling is the coeditor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791

Charlene Bangs Bickford is the director and coeditor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801841003
• ISBN 13: 9780801841002
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
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