The bill of rights in Modern America
revised and expanded
- ISBN: 9780253219916
- Editorial: Indiana University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: Bloomington (IN). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 304
- Idiomas: Inglés
This newly revised and expanded edition of "The Bill of Rights in Modern America" captures the noisy and potentially defining national debate about the nature and extent of our individual rights. Free speech, the separation of church and state, public safety and gun control, property rights, the rights of criminals and victims, the limits of law enforcement, the death penalty, affirmative action, the right to privacy, abortion, states' rights - the Bill of Rights has been evoked as the legal basis for every one of these issues. Twelve distinguished legal scholars discuss the history and the current debates on these and other important rights issues in a book that is certain to stimulate thoughtful discussion among all citizens.
Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers
The explosion and erosion of rights / Gary L. McDowell
Symbolic speech and the first amendment / Paul L. Murphy
Church and state: The religion clauses / Melvin I. Urofsky
Public safety and the right to bear arms / Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond
The enigmatic place of property rights in modern constitutional thought / James W. Ely, Jr
Reversing the revolution: Rights of the accused in a conservative age / David J. Bodenhamer
Police practices and the Bill of Rights / Laurence A. Benner and Michal R. Belknap
The "cruel and unusual punishment" clause: A limit on the power to punish or constitutional rhetoric? / Joseph L. Hoffmann
Equal protection and affirmative action / Herman Belz
A ninth amendment for today's constitution / Randy E. Barnett
Of floors and ceilings: The new federalism and state Bills of Rights / Kermit L. Hall
