The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American LibertiesFourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights. |
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RIGHTS IN PASSAGE ENGLISH LIBERTIES IN EARLY AMERICA | 3 |
THE CONSTITUTION WITHOUT A BILL OF RIGHTS | 16 |
A TUB TO THE WHALE THE ADOPTION OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS | 46 |
THE NEW ENGLAND STATES | 61 |
MASSACHUSETTS From Liberties to Rights The Struggle in Colonial Massachusetts | 63 |
THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE STATES | 66 |
CONNECTICUT Liberty Justice and No Bill of Rights Protecting Natural Rights in a CommonLaw Commonwealth | 100 |
RHODE ISLAND Rhode Island Laboratory for the Lively Experiment | 123 |
DELAWARE Delaware Armed in the Cause of Freedom | 274 |
PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania Pioneer in Safeguarding Personal Rights | 308 |
THE SOUTHERN STATES | 333 |
VIRGINIA That All Men Are Born Equally Free and Independent Virginians and the Origins of the Bill of Rights | 335 |
MARYLAND To Maintain Inviolate Our Liberties Maryland and the Bill of Rights | 370 |
SOUTH CAROLINA Their Liberties Properties and Priviledges Civil Liberties in South Carolina 16631791 | 398 |
NORTH CAROLINA There Ought to Be a Bill of Rights North Carolina Enters a New Nation | 424 |
GEORGIA Frontier Haven Georgia and the Bill of Rights | 443 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire Accepts the Bill of Rights | 162 |
VERMONT Freedom and Unity Vermonts Search for Security of Property Liberty and Popular Government | 181 |
THE MIDDLE STATES | 213 |
NEW YORK Liberty as Natures Gift The Colonial Origins of the Bill of Rights in New York | 215 |
NEW JERSEY A Study in Paradox New Jersey and the Bill of Rights | 246 |
The Bill of Rights A Bibliographic Essay | 461 |
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 539 |
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
The Bill of Rights and North Carolina: There Ought to be a Bill of Rights ... William Solomon Price (Jr.) Predogled ni na voljo - 1991 |
The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of ... P Conley Predogled ni na voljo - 1992 |
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Bibliografski podatki
| Naslov | The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Avtor | U.S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original States |
| Uredniki | Patrick T. Conley, John P. Kaminski |
| Sodelavec | University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution |
| Izdaja | ilustrirana |
| Založnik | Rowman & Littlefield, 1992 |
| ISBN | 094561229X, 9780945612292 |
| Dolžina | 542 strani |
| Izvozi navedbo | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |