Constitutional opinions
Subtitle: aspects of the Bill of Rights
By: Leonard W. Levy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: United States; Civil rights -- United States -- History; Constitutional history -- United States
Description: Although this collection spans the entire course of American history, Levy focuses primarily on colonial America and the Constitutional period. His essays cover a broad range of subjects, including free speech in the 17th century, John Liburne and the rights of the English, Quaker blasphemy and toleration, the Zenger case, the First and Ffifth Amendments, Jefferson as civil libertarian, and judicial activism. Levy's previously unpublished works offer new discussions of the history of our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the establishment clause of the First Amendment, and the right against self-incrimination.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 245-272.