Bill of Rights in Modern America Revised and Expanded

Name: Bill of Rights in Modern America Revised and Expanded
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ISBN: 9780253219916

ISBN-10: 0253219914

ISBN-13: 9780253219916

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: David J. Bodenhamer, James W. Ely, Daniel T. Rodgers, Gary L. McDowell, Suzanna Sherry

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An expert guide to current debates on individual rights in America

Book details

List price: $29.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Tudor Parfitt is Research Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and President Navon Professor of Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies at Florida International University and Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.Daniel T. Rodgers is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University.



Introduction



The Bill of Rights (and the Fourteenth Amendment)



The Myth and Reality of Rights



Rights Consciousness in American History




The Explosion and Erosion of Rights




Modern Rights in Controversy



The First Amendment and the Freedom to Differ




Church and State: The Religion Clauses




Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms




The Enigmatic Place of Property Rights in Modern Constitutional Thought




Reversing the Revolution: Rights of the Accused in a Conservative Age




Police Practices and the Bill of Rights




The "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" Clause: A Limit on the Power to Punish or Constitutional Rhetoric?




Equal Protection and Affirmative Action




Rights Remembered, Revised, and Extended



The Right to Privacy




Second Wind for the State Bill of Rights



Notes


Bibliographic Essays


List of Contributors


Table of Cases


Index