The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins
"Every reference library should have a copy."--The Law and Politics Book Review"All academic research libraries should buy this book."--Choice"For anyone interested in our Constitution, our history, or our political theory, this book is an intellectual treasure chest. It is more than legislative history. It is constitution-drafting in the raw--all the proposals and all the give-and-take (some of it disturbing) that resulted in the adoption of the Bill of Rights."--Floyd A. Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon and Reindel"This wonderful collection offers one-stop shopping for the serious student of the Bill of Rights, for the casual reader, and for everyone in between."--Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School"This book is an invaluable resource for constitutional scholars, teachers, litigators, and judges alike. It collects and collates the basic texts necessary for informed interpretation of the Bill of Rights and gives them to researchers in a compact, comprehensive, and reliable form that is wonderfully organized for both quick scanning and sustained critical analysis. It makes previously difficult research tasks easy and opens new lines of thinking at a glance."-- Anthony G. Amsterdam, Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor and Director, Lawyering Program, New York University Law School"What a treasure. In one volume, everything any constitutional scholar, lawyer, or history buff needs to know about the origins of our Bill of Rights. Now the debate about how these amendments should be interpreted can really begin."--Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor, Harvard Law School"The Complete Bill of Rights is a major occasion in American publishing. This volume will take its place on the reference shelf next to Farrand, Elliott, Storing, Kurland, and Lerner as essential to the understanding of the American constitutional tradition. Never before has it been possible to think seriously and completely about the text of the Bill of Rights, for never before have all of the texts relating to the final version of the Bill of Rights been easily and accurately accessible in one reference work. This is a triumph of careful and thoughtful scholarship. It is now one of the essential components of the library of constitutionalism. It will never be out of date."--Stanley N. Katz, President, American Council of Learned Societies" . . . all students of the Constitution will find this a helpful and provocative work."--Pergamon" . . .The Complete Bill of Rights contribute[s] significantly to our undersranding of a towering constitutional document that plays a major role in determining our national identity . . . "--Wisconsin Magazine of History"...The Complete Bill of Rights is, by any reasonable standard of measurement, a magnificent accomplishment . . .[it] is likely to become the standard source book for those seeking to ground their examination of the issues posed by the first ten amendments in the original source materials describing their drafting, discussion and ratification."--Michigan Law Review