The Bill of Rights in modern America
This newly revised and expanded edition of The Bill of Rights in Modern America captures the contentious national debate about the nature and extent of our individual rights. Free speech, the separation of church and state, public safety and gun control, property rights, the rights of criminals and victims, the limits of law enforcement, the death penalty, affirmative action, the right to privacy, abortion, states' rights--the Bill of Rights has been evoked as the legal basis for every one of these issues. Twelve distinguished legal scholars discuss the history of and the current debates on these and other important rights issues in a book that is certain to stimulate thoughtful discussion among all citizens
Print Book, English, ©2008
Rev. and expanded View all formats and editions
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2008
xii, 322 pages ; 25 cm
9780253351593, 9780253219916, 9780253312235, 0253351596, 0253219914, 025331223X
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Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers
The explosion and erosion of rights / Gary L. McDowell
The First Amendment and the freedom to differ / Suzanna Sherry
Church and state : the religion clauses / Melvin I. Urofsky
Public safety and the right to bear arms / Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond
The enigmatic place of property rights in modern constitutional thought / James W. Ely, Jr
Reversing the revolution : rights of the accused in a conservative age / David J. Bodenhamer
Police practices and the bill of rights / Laurence A. Benner and Michal R. Belknap
The "cruel and unusual punishment" clause: a limit on the power to punish or constitutional rhetoric? / Joseph L. Hoffmann
Equal protection and affirmative action / Herman Belz
The right to privacy / Ken I. Kersch
Second wind for the state Bill of Rights / Randall T. Shepard