Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Rakove, Jack

ISBN 10: 0312137346 / ISBN 13: 9780312137342

Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312137346
• ISBN 13: 9780312137342
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Bringing clarity to the original meaning of the Bill of Rights, Declaring Rights helps you look at the intentions of the first Constitutional amendments and the significance of declaring rights through the traditions and deliberations from which the document emerged.

About the Author

Jack N. Rakove is Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor (by courtesy) of political science at Stanford University. His scholarly work concentrates on the creation of a national policy in Revolutionary America, the problem of ascertaining the original meaning on the Constitution, and the political career and thinking of James Madison. His most recent book, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in history. Rakoves other works include James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (1990), Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate over Original Intent (1990), and The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretative History of the Continental Congress (1979). He contributes to numerous scholarly and legal journals and lectures both in the United States and abroad.