Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress - Brossura

Bickford, Charlene Bangs

 
9780801841002: Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress
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ISBN 10: 0801841003 ISBN 13: 9780801841002
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1991

Sinossi

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.

Taken together, these documents offer important lessons in the history of American liberty and vividly illustrate the divisions that beset the country in its formative years. Published as part of the bicentennial commemoration of the amendments' adoption, Creating the Bill of Rights collects original papers relating to the discussions and decisions that helped shape American civic life.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Helen E. Veit is associate editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791; Kenneth R. Bowling serves as co-editor of the DHFFC and is the author of The Creation of Washington, D.C.; Charlene Bangs Bickford, director and co-editor of DHFFC, is the coauthor with Kenneth Bowling of Birth of a Nation: The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791.

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Editore
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1991
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0801841003
ISBN 13 
9780801841002
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
352
Redattore
Veit Helen E., Bowling Kenneth R., Bickford Charlene Bangs
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0801840996 ISBN 13:  9780801840999
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991
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