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The Bill of Rights: its origin and meaning

Brant, Irving, 1885-

Year: 1965.

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co..

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Frontmatter

PART I The Bill of Rights and Its Background

1 Sixty-Three Pledges of Freedom

2 Thinking Back to Edward III

3 Textbooks on Tyranny

4 Ten Pillars of Freedom

5 Hats On and Hats Off

6 Mandates or Admonitions

7 Old Rights and Later Wrongs

8 The Diabolical Art of Printing

9 Coke's Myth of Seditious Libel

10 Judicial Midwives of the Law of Libel

11 The Popish Plot

12 The Fall of the Perjured Informers

13 Eight Saints and a Sinner

14 Such Freedom as the Law Allows

15 The Case of John Peter Zenger

16 Franklin, Francklin, Cato and Wilkes

17 Junius, Juries and Judges

18 The Current of Freedom

PART II The Bill of Rights and Its Foreground

19 Congress Shall Make No Law

20 A Time Lag in Madness

21 Idolators of Tyranny

22 Champions of Liberty

23 Freedom Enchained

24 Madison vs. Marshall vs. Iredell

25 A Textbook on Liberty

26 Revival of Freedom

27 The Fourteenth Amendment: Its First Form

28 The Fourteenth Amendment: Its Final Form

29 The Privilege of No Privilege

30 The Due Process of No Process

31 Equal Rights and Segregation

32 Thou Shalt (Not) Accuse Thyself

33 Due Process in Speech and Press

34 Freedom of Religion

35 Lex et Consuetudo Congressi

36 Forging the Sword of Inquisition

37 Attainder by Congressional Committees

38 Resurgent Rights

39 Fear of Freedom

40 Freedom from Fear

Notes

Bibliographical Notes

Index

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Title:

The Bill of Rights : its origin and meaning Irving Brant.

Author:

Brant, Irving, 1885-

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2008
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The Bill of Rights : its origin and meaning Irving Brant.
Brant, Irving, 1885-
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1965.

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Subject Headings:

• United States. -- Constitution. -- 1st-10th Amendments
• Liberty
• Constitutional amendments -- United States
• Civil rights -- United States

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