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| Title | : | The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300082770 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
This study illuminates the text, structure, and history of the clauses of the 1789 Bill of Rights, and looks at their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. The author also looks at the changes brought about by the introduction of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Remarkably insightful and interesting MT57 I read this after reading Professor Amar's "The Constitution: A Biography" which is the reverse of the order in which they were written. I enjoyed that one enormously and had the same reaction here. Professor Amar does an amazing job of using historical materials and textual analysis to provide numerous insights into the meaning of the Bill of Rights. The dominant thesis of the book is that the Bill of Rights when passed in 1791 was as much to protect states from the federal government as it was to keep individual liberties intact. I was n. "Not 1 but 2 Bill of R - A Profound New Way To See It" according to A Customer. While neither an academic nor lawyer, I write as a serious student of American law and our constiutional and political history. I came to this book after reading four seminal articles on majority rule popular sovereignty and amendment of the Constitution outside of Article V by Professor Amar. These articles appeared in law journals between 1988 and 199Not 1 but 2 Bill of R - A Profound New Way To See It A Customer While neither an academic nor lawyer, I write as a serious student of American law and our constiutional and political history. I came to this book after reading four seminal articles on majority rule popular sovereignty and amendment of the Constitution outside of Article V by Professor Amar. These articles appeared in law journals between 1988 and 1994. From these I was aware of Professor Amar as a profound and meticulous constitutional law scholar. What my reading of the Bill of Rights Creation and Reconstruction brought to the horizon . . From these I was aware of Professor Amar as a profound and meticulous constitutional law scholar. What my reading of the Bill of Rights Creation and Reconstruction brought to the horizon . "The ambiguous lessons of history" according to Brandon L. Bigelow. Professor Amar's book is absolutely essential to a complete understanding of the history and future of the notion of substantive due process. Although he ostensibly writes about "The Bill of Rights," Professor Amar's focus is more correctly understood as what changes the Fourteenth Amendment and Reconstruction wrought -- or should have wrought -- in our understanding of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Professor Amar's "refined incorporation" is perhaps the most coherent explanation yet, while his history of the drafting and r
Through skillful interpretation and solid research, Amar both reconstructs the original thinking of the Founding Fathers and chronicles the radical changes that have occurred since the inclusion of the 14th Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Part history of the Bill, part analysis of what the Founding Fathers' intentions really were, this book provides a unique interpretation of the Constitution. "Instead of being studied holistically, the Bill has been broken up with each segment examined in isolation." With The Bill of Rights, Amar aims to put the pieces back together an
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