Creating the Bill of Rights
Subtitle: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress
Contributors: Helen E. Veit (Editor); Kenneth R. Bowling (Editor); Charlene Bangs Bickford (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801841002
Subjects: American history; Courts & procedure; United States; Constitution.; Civil Procedure; United States.; History - U.S.; Sources; History: American; USA; History; United States - General; History / United States / General; 1st-10th Amendments.; Civil rights; Constitution
First sentence: THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will be ensure the benificent ends of its institution