The Bill of Rights

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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 new account of our most basic charter of liberty. 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.

subjects: Civil rights,  Constitutional amendments,  United States,  Historia constitucional,  Constitution,  Etats-Unis,  Droit civil,  Grondrechten,  Derechos civiles,  Révision constitutionnelle,  Verfassung <1787> / Amendment 1-10,  Amendements (01er-10e),  Bill of Rights (Verenigde Staten),  USA,  Constitution (United States),  Amendment 1-10,  United states, constitution,  Constitutional amendments, united states,  Civil rights, united states,  Constitutional history, united states,  Droits de l'homme,  LAW,  Constitutional,  Public,  General

Places: United States