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<p>americans Resorted To Arms In 1775 Not To Establish New Liberties But To Defend Old Ones, Explains Constitutional Historian Leonard W. Levy In This History Of The Origins Of The Bill Of Rights. Unencumbered By A Rigid Class System, An Arbitrary Government, Or A Single Established Church Squelching Dissent, Colonial Americans Understood Freedom In A Far More Comprehensive And Liberal Way Than The English, Levy Shows. He Offers Here A Panoramic View Of The Liberties Secured By The First Ten Amendments To The Constitution - A Penetrating Analysis Of The Background Of The Bill Of Rights And Of Current Legal Understandings Of Each Of Its Provisions.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>when Americans Began Drafting A Bill Of Rights Suitable For Their New Republic, They Were Actually Following Longstanding Anglo-american Tradition. In A Well-researched, Though Hardly Pathbreaking, History, Levy (blasphemy, Etc.), Professor Emeritus At The Claremont Graduate School, Devotes Chapters To Important Protections: Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Religion, Habeas Corpus, Prohibitions On Bills Of Attainder, Etc. With Each Topic, He Delves Into Its Sources--english Common Law, Enlightenment Philosophy

Author

Leonard W. Levy; Leonard Williams Levy

Publisher

Yale Nota Bene : Yale University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585337999

Subjects

Law, History, Political Science

Rating

3.7 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14