Origins of the Bill of Rights /

In this history of the origins of the Bill of Rights, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leonard W. Levy offers a panoramic view of the liberties secured by the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Levy illuminates the behind-the-scenes maneuverings, public rhetoric, and political motivations of...

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मुख्य लेखक: Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006 (लेखक)
स्वरूप: Licensed eBooks
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press ©1999.
श्रृंखला:Contemporary law series.
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nq0gx
विषय - सूची:
  • Why we have the Bill of Rights
  • Habeas corpus
  • Bills of attainder
  • The First Amendment: the Establishment Clause
  • The First Amendment: the Free Press Clause
  • The right to bear arms
  • The Fourth Amendment: search and seizure
  • The Fifth Amendment: the right against self-incrimination
  • Double jeopardy
  • The double jury system: grand and petty
  • The Eight Amendment
  • The Ninth Amendment: unenumerated rights.