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Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Bancroft Prize, Henry Adams Prize, Ohio History Association Book Prize, In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments, such those requiring a balanced federal budget or limiting the terms of members of Congress, that have been proposed since the book was originally published and why they failed...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"This book is a documentary history of the rights found in the American state constitutions adopted between 1776 and 1790. Despite the rich tradition of rights at the state level, rights in America have been identified almost exclusively with the national Bill of Rights. Indeed, there is no work that provides a comprehensive treatment of the early state declarations of rights. Rather, these declarations have been viewed as halting first steps towards...