The Bill of Rights in the Modern State

Stone, Geoffrey R.; Epstein, Richard A.; Sunstein, Cass R. (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0226775321 / ISBN 13: 9780226775326

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bill of Rights in the Modern State
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226775321
• ISBN 13: 9780226775326
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 3.3W x 17.78H x 25.4D centimeters 3.3 centimeters width by 17.78 centimeters height by 25.4 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1021 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law
  • Politics
  • History

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Synopsis

Although the Bill of Rights has existed for two hundred years, the last half century has seen dramatic changes in its meaning and scope. The essays collected in this volume represent the full range of views and interpretations of what these first ten amendments to the U. S. Constitution mean today as guarantors of individual rights.

The contributors to this volume are among the most prominent constitutional scholars in the country. Most of the essays are grouped in pairs, each of which offers conflicting positions on current constitutional controversies, including property rights, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, levels of generality in constitutional interpreation, and unemumerated rights.

The contributors are: Bruce Ackerman, Mary E. Becker, Ronald Dworkin, Frank H. Easterbrook, Richard A. Epstein, Charles Fried, Mary Ann Glendon, Philip B. Kurland, Frank J. Michaelman, Michael W. McConnell, Richard A. Posner, Kathleen M. Sullivan, John Paul Stevens, David A. Strauss, and Cass R. Sunstein.

"A thoughtful and well coordinated set of exchanges between leading modern constitutional theorists about the most significant issues related to the Bill of Rights and the Welfare State. These issues are debated through penetrating essays by opposing theorists who get to the heart of these issues and provide significant answers to their debate opponents' points."—Thomas R. Van Dervort, Southeastern Political Review

About the Authors

Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of a number of books, including Simple Rules for a Complex World and Principles for a Free Society, and coeditor of The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court, published by the University of Chicago Press.