num_pages: 580
description: Contents:The Bill of Rights and its background: Sixty-three pledges of freedom;Thinking back to Edward III; Textbooks on tyranny; Ten pillars of freedom; Hats on and hats off; Mandates or admonitions; Old rights and later wrongs; The diabolical art of printing; Coke's myth of seditious libel; Judicial midwives of the law of libel; The popish plot; The fall of the perjured informers; Eight saints and a sinner; Such freedom as the law allows; The case of John Peter Zenger; Franklin, Francklin, Cato and Wilkes; Junius, juries, and judges; The current of freedom --The Bill of Rights and its foreground: Congress shall make no law; A time lag in madness; Idolators of tyranny; Champions of liberty; Freedom enchained; Madison vs. Marshall vs. Iredell; A textbook on liberty; Revival of freedom; The fourteenth amendment, its first form; The fourteenth amendment, its final form; The privilege of no privilege; The due process of no process; Equal rights and segregation; Thou shalt (not) accuse thyself; Due process in speech and press; Freedom of religion; Lex et consuetudo congressi; Forging the sword of inquisition; Attainder by congressional committees; Resurgent rights; Fear of freedom; Freedom from fear.
language: English
title: The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning
titlecomplete: The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning
genres: History
ratings_count: 8
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History and Biography
publisher: Acls History E-Book Project