A Culture of Rights
Subtitle: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Contributors: Michael James Lacey (Editor); Knud Haakonssen (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 29, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780521416375
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Human rights; History & Theory - General; Constitutional Law; Political Science; History - General History; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Civil Procedure; General; Civil rights--United States--History; Political Science / History & Theory; Civil rights; History
First sentence: As the first ten amendments were making their way through the provisions of the new Constitution they were to amend, American jurisprudence was being systematically formulated by the recently appointed professor to the new chair of law at the College of Philadelphia.