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Likely the most accessible and useful source of primary materials to come out of the nation's recognition of the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, Creating the Bill of Rights is a welcome addition to American constitutional scholarship.
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This book has been cited in at least one written Supreme Court decision but is very lacking and incomplete. Most of the content seems dedicated to (a) lists of proposed amendments, (b) the debate between inlining vs. appending the amendments (appending won, obviously, giving us a toilet paper roll of amendments rather than a concise constitution), or (c) the addendum of private letters at the end which focuses on sentiments of the Bill of Rights as opposed to actual decision-making. You will get very little substance of committee meetings where the more interesting decisions get made, or why most of the amendments are worded the way they are.This book is a dud, a very weak followup to Madison's 1787 convention notes. Such a shame and such missed potential.
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THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will be ensure the benificent ends of its institution Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
state shall neglect, rights related amendments, other accustomed requisites, rightful establishment thereof, requisition upon the states, one representative for every thirty, state ratification convention, first congressional election, such requisition, religiously scrupulous, first enumeration, honorable gentleman, payment prescribed, strike out the words, public exigencies, federal convention, supreme court shall, being seconded, exclusive advantages, law varying, proposing amendments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, The Congressional Register, Elbridge Gerry, George Thatcher, Richard Peters, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Goodhue, Benjamin Huntington, Fisher Ames, South Carolina, The Daily Advertiser, Edmund Randolph, Tench Coxe, Citizen of New Haven, Abraham Baldwin, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Leven Powell, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Theodore Sedgwick, Van Rensselaer New!
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THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will be ensure the benificent ends of its institution Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
state shall neglect, rights related amendments, other accustomed requisites, rightful establishment thereof, requisition upon the states, one representative for every thirty, state ratification convention, first congressional election, such requisition, religiously scrupulous, first enumeration, honorable gentleman, payment prescribed, strike out the words, public exigencies, federal convention, supreme court shall, being seconded, exclusive advantages, law varying, proposing amendments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, The Congressional Register, Elbridge Gerry, George Thatcher, Richard Peters, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Goodhue, Benjamin Huntington, Fisher Ames, South Carolina, The Daily Advertiser, Edmund Randolph, Tench Coxe, Citizen of New Haven, Abraham Baldwin, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Leven Powell, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Theodore Sedgwick, Van Rensselaer New!
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- A Tale of a Tub (Everyman's University Paperbacks) by Jonathan Swift in Front Matter, and page 175
- George Washington (American Presidents Reference Series) by Thomas Langston on page 110, and page 215
- - James Madison (The Virginia Experience) by Carole Marsh on page 254
- New Hampshire (Land of Liberty) by Barbara Knox in Back Matter
- John Page: Harp Mender (CV/Visual Arts Research) by N. P. James on page 51
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- Declaring Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Jack Rakove on page 168, page 183, and Back Matter
- The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy by Mark Kann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution by Robert A. Goldwin on page 200, and page 202
- The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy by Mark E. Kann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Clayton E. Cramer on page 53, and Back Matter
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