The heart of the Constitution
Subtitle: how the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights
By: Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780190271602
Subjects: Constitutional history; United States; Civil rights; History
Description: "This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten amendments the Bill of Rights. When they did after 1900, the Bill of Rights was usually invoked to increase rather than limit federal authority"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : The Bill of Rights; title: Introduction : The First Bill of Rights Day; title: Fighting the Crown; title: Opposing the Constitution; title: Drafting the amendments; title: Wandering in the wilderness; title: Reconstructing the Union; title: Justifying imperialism; title: Defending the New Deal; title: Attacking the Führer; title: Reinventing judicial review; title: Waging the Cold War; title: Epilogue : A Sacred Relic; title: Appendix A. The English Declaration of Rights (1689); title: Appendix B. The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776); title: Appendix C. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).