The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction. Este artículo no está disponible.The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

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.

Are 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 new account of our most basic charter of liberty. 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.