Bills, quills, and stills
Subtitle: an annotated, illustrated, and illuminated history of the Bill of Rights
By: by Robert J. McWhirter
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9781604420975; 9781614383802
Subjects: Constitutional history; United States; Civil rights
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-515) and index.
Table of contents: title: Of dogma and desire : saying what you believe about the First Amendment; title: Shooting your mouth off about the Second Amendment; title: The Third Amendment : don't count it out yet!; title: Molasses and the sticky origins of the Fourth Amendment; title: From testicles to dragnet : how the Fifth Amendment protects all of us; title: How the Sixth Amendment guarantees you a court, a lawyer, and a chamber pot; title: Trial by jury or . . . by God!; title: "Baby, don't be cruel" : what's so cruel and unusual about the Eighth Amendment?; title: The Ninth Amendment : still a mystery after all these years; title: "Are you talkin' to me?" : just who are those "people" in the Tenth amendment?