The nature of rights at the American founding and beyond
By: edited by Barry Alan Shain.
Contributors: Shain, Barry Alan, 1950-
Series: Constitutionalism and democracy
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813926667
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States; Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Situating rights : an introduction to the nature of American rights / Richard Primus; title: The emergence of the modern concept of a right in America : the contribution of Michel Villey / James H. Hutson; title: The authority of rights at the American founding / John Phillip Reid; title: Rights natural and civil in the declaration of independence / Barry Alan Shain; title: The creation, reconstruction, and interpretation of the Bill of Rights / Akhil Reed Amar; title: The dilemma of declaring rights / Jack N. Rakove; title: The limited horizons of Whig religious rights / A. Gregg Roeber; title: The history of rights in early America / Gordon S. Wood; title: Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers; title: The diversity of rights in contemporary ethical and political thought / Leif Wenar and Stephen Macedo; title: The politics of rights talk, then and now / Rogers M. Smith.