LEADER 03729nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910827571003321 005 20240418002457.0 010 $a1-281-74067-5 010 $a9786611740672 010 $a0-300-12708-1 010 $a0-585-35357-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300127089 035 $a(CKB)111004366654130 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049396 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000111503 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12017121 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111503 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080835 035 $a(PQKB)10827920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289979 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220381 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289979 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10402448 035 $a(PQKB)11670042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420363 035 $a(DE-B1597)484914 035 $a(OCoLC)952734199 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300127089 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420363 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210246 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL174067 035 $a(OCoLC)923592565 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366654130 100 $a19970917d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Bill of Rights $ecreation and reconstruction /$fAkhil Reed Amar 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (430 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-07379-8 311 $a0-300-08277-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-396) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Creation -- pt. 2. Reconstruction. 330 $aAre 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 incisive new account of our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar brilliantly illuminates in rich detail not simply the text, structure, and history of individual clauses of the 1789 Bill, but their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. Amar's corrective does not end there, however, for as his powerful narrative proves, a later generation of antislavery activists profoundly changed the meaning of the Bill in the Reconstruction era. With the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans underwent a new birth of freedom that transformed the old Bill of Rights.We have as a result a complex historical document originally designed to protect the people against self-interested government and revised by the Fourteenth Amendment to guard minority against majority. 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.Amar's landmark work invites citizens to a deeper understanding of their Bill of Rights and will set the basic terms of debate about it for modern lawyers, jurists, and historians for years to come. 606 $aConstitutional amendments$zUnited States 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States 615 0$aConstitutional amendments 615 0$aCivil rights 676 $a342.73/085 700 $aAmar$b Akhil Reed$0553918 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827571003321 996 $aThe Bill of Rights$94088160 997 $aUNINA